Originally founded as a public library in Zouk Mika\u00ebl during the 1940\u2019s, this municipal facility was re-established in April of 2009 as the Youth and Culture Center.<\/p>\n
Lebanon\u2019s 15-year civil war greatly hindered the development of the library\u2019s services. It wasn\u2019t until peacetime that the Municipality of Zouk Mika\u00ebl called upon a new generation of young architects to conceive a cultural complex, both modern and traditional. In collaboration with the Lebanese University of Fine Arts (ALBA), recognition for achievement was won in a competition launched by the university: this was Lebanon\u2019s first approach at municipal participation.<\/p>\n
With the architectural part achieved, this \u201cdream\u201d project had to be financed. The municipal budget was by no means grand, yet with the striving economy, budget management and rationalization of expenditures, the city of Zouk Mika\u00ebl managed to inaugurate in April 2009 the first municipal cultural complex in Lebanon: the Youth and Culture Center (YCC).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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