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Closed for decades, theater returns to Lebanon’s Tripoli | Entertainment News
TRIPOLI, Lebanon (AP) — The hissing of a drinking water hose spraying the ground reverberates about the partitions of the dimly lit Empire Cinema in Lebanon’s northern town of Tripoli. From the flooring of a paint-chipped area that was when a ticket business, a person sorts by means of rusty bolts and screws, although in the adjacent foyer, a woman sweeps dust off a mirror. The person primary the restoration endeavours is 35-calendar year-outdated actor and director Kassem Istanbouli, regarded for his theater function through Lebanon. Numerous days a week, his workforce — which incorporates a Syrian, a Palestinian, a Lebanese and a Bangladeshi — drives a few several hours…