The Beirut Sports Festival has just come to a close at the Beirut Forum. It was an extraordinarily popular success, with tens of thousands of visitors. Among the multitude of sporting activities and disciplines on the program was a championship in arm wrestling, which was unusual, to say the least. This arm-wrestling competition, or “kbesh” in Lebanese, aroused the curiosity of the large numbers of people who attended.
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