{"id":54608,"date":"2015-09-14T09:55:11","date_gmt":"2015-09-14T06:55:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sana.sy\/en\/?p=54608"},"modified":"2015-09-14T10:05:11","modified_gmt":"2015-09-14T07:05:11","slug":"syria-stronger-festival-kicks-off-in-lattakia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.sana.sy\/en\/?p=54608","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Syria Stronger&#8221; Festival kicks off in Lattakia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Lattakia, SANA- A festival dubbed &#8220;Syria Stronger&#8221;\u00a0<span style=\"line-height: 1.5;\">started activities on Sunday at Dar al-Assad for\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"line-height: 1.5;\">Cultural in the coastal Lattakia province with the\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"line-height: 1.5;\">participation of civil, sport, political, and\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"line-height: 1.5;\">cultural figures.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The festival, organized by Lattakia Governorate in\u00a0cooperation with the Ministry of Culture, will\u00a0hold various activities in different areas of the\u00a0province.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Many sport competitions, cultural symposia, poetry\u00a0evenings and folkloric dancing shows will be also\u00a0organized in the framework of the festival which\u00a0will last till Oct. 17th<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">In a word at the opening of the festival, Lattakia\u00a0Governor Ibrahim Khudir al-Salem indicated the\u00a0deep implications of the festival&#8217;s name as the\u00a0Syrian Arab army is still providing sacrifices to\u00a0make &#8220;Syria Stronger&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/sana.sy\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/00003356.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright wp-image-54618 size-medium\" src=\"http:\/\/sana.sy\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/00003356-300x160.jpg\" alt=\"00003356\" width=\"300\" height=\"160\" srcset=\"https:\/\/archive.sana.sy\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/00003356-300x160.jpg 300w, https:\/\/archive.sana.sy\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/00003356-310x165.jpg 310w, https:\/\/archive.sana.sy\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/00003356.jpg 620w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Al-Salem said that holding the festival conveys a\u00a0message on the resilience of the Syrian people and\u00a0their determination to live the life with all of\u00a0its sweet and bitter details.<\/p>\n<p>For his part, Chairman of Lattakia Culture\u00a0Directorate Majid Sarem said in a statement to\u00a0journalists that the festival comes in the\u00a0framework of the Ministry of Culture&#8217;s plan to\u00a0hold festivals which have a national dimensions\u00a0and to open the door wide for different\u00a0institutions to participate in these festivals\u00a0such as the Arab Writers Union, the NGOs, the\u00a0Artists Association and the National Theater.<\/p>\n<p>Artistic, sports, ballet, circus, acrobat, and\u00a0gymnastics shows were performed at the opening of\u00a0the festival. A shopping market is being also held\u00a0in the framework of the festival.<\/p>\n<p>R.J\/ Barry<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lattakia, SANA- A festival dubbed &#8220;Syria Stronger&#8221;\u00a0started activities on Sunday at Dar al-Assad for\u00a0Cultural in the coastal Lattakia province with the\u00a0participation of civil, sport, political, and\u00a0cultural figures. The festival, organized by Lattakia Governorate in\u00a0cooperation with the Ministry of Culture, will\u00a0hold various activities in different areas of the\u00a0province. Many sport competitions, cultural symposia, poetry\u00a0evenings and folkloric &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":37,"featured_media":54610,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,150,115,116,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-54608","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","","category-arts-culture","category-festivals","category-local","category-news-locals","category-news-not-sorted"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.sana.sy\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54608"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.sana.sy\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.sana.sy\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.sana.sy\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/37"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.sana.sy\/en\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=54608"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive.sana.sy\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54608\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.sana.sy\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/54610"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.sana.sy\/en\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=54608"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.sana.sy\/en\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=54608"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.sana.sy\/en\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=54608"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}