Editing Lebanon (section)

=== Arts ===
In visual arts, [[Moustafa Farroukh]] was among Lebanon's most prominent painters of the 20th century. Formally trained in Rome and Paris, he exhibited in venues from Paris to New York to Beirut over his career.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.kaftoun.com/component/content/article/197-moustafa-farroukh/358-moustafa-farroukh |title=Moustafa Farroukh |publisher=Kaftoun.com |date=2 July 2010 |access-date=5 May 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120307122305/http://www.kaftoun.com/component/content/article/197-moustafa-farroukh/358-moustafa-farroukh |archive-date=7 March 2012 |url-status=dead}}</ref> Many more contemporary artists are active, such as [[Walid Raad]], a contemporary media artist residing in New York.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.medienkunstnetz.de/artist/raad/biography/ |title=Media Art Net &#124; Ra'ad, Walid: Biography |publisher=Medienkunstnetz.de |access-date=5 May 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120430025450/http://www.medienkunstnetz.de/artist/raad/biography/ |archive-date=30 April 2012 |url-status=live}}</ref> In the field of photography, the [[Arab Image Foundation]] has a collection of over 400,000 photographs from Lebanon and the Middle East. The photographs can be viewed in a research center and various events and publications have been produced in Lebanon and worldwide to promote the collection.