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The Documentary: Global dancefloor: Beirut

Global dancefloor: Beirut

17/05/2023 GMT

BBC World Service - The Documentary, Global dancefloor: Beirut

Keeping nightlife alive in a country in crisis

In Beirut, the underground music scene tries to survive amid Lebanon’s political and economic crises. Frank McWeeny meets the community behind the Grand Factory.

Frank McWeeny heads to Beirut to meet the nightlife community behind the Grand Factory club, and explores how underground culture here survives even during chronic lack of opportunity. This scene is working tirelessly to remain active, while rebuilding both physically and psychologically.

But how do you run a club in a country that is going through the worst economic and political crisis in its history? The country's currency has lost 90% of its value, more than half of the population live below the poverty line, and the investigation into one of the world's biggest non-nuclear explosions in the city's port area in 2020 is still ongoing. 
 
Presenter/producer: Frank McWeeny
Producer: Victoria Ferran 
A Just Radio production  for BBC World Service

(Photo: Jade, DJ, producer and founder of Grand Factory club. Credit: Raghed Waked)

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