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Nablus festival, officially Nablus Festival for Culture and Arts, (مهرجان نابلس للثقافة و الفنون) is an annual festival organized by Project Hope that takes place in Nablus, Palestine. The festival celebrates and showcases the best of local and international culture in Nablus and Palestine. It hosts a wide range of international artists in the city, and the registration to participate is open to those who would like to perform during the festival.

The festival includes art exhibitions, film screenings, conferences, workshops and concerts in the old city of Nablus, Balata camp, Old Askar Camp and New Askar Camp.

Conception
The reason behind the festival is to nourish the cultural scene in the city. As stated in the official website of the festival:"“Nablus is one of the oldest cities in the world and one of the biggest cities in Palestine, but unfortunately the cultural events and activities in the city are limited.”"In an interview with Hakim Sabbah, Project Hope director, he talked about how the Israeli siege of Nablus and the continuous invasions of the city strangled the life in it, and that Project Hope wanted to start an annual festival to bring back the life and culture to the city.

Participants
In 2016, the festival was a huge success, attracting some 5000 guests, participants from Palestine and around the world came to performed in more than 60 events that were held in various places around the old city, villages and refugee camps. In that first year the festival was held for eight days, from April 25th to May 2nd.

In total, approximately 150 participants came to perform from 12 countries; Algeria, Denmark, France, Ireland, Norway, Poland, South Africa, Sweden, Switzerland, UK, USA and Palestine.

Events
In 2016, a wide variety of about 60 events were associated with the festival, art and photo exhibitions, film screenings, concerts, musical performances, food contests, storytelling, poetry reading, workshops, works exhibition, circus shows and many other activities. The organizers wanted the events to be as diverse as possible.

Every year, the festival is going to hold an international foreign film events from one country, the first year it was the German film festival, and the opening film was Sophie Scholl - Die letzten Tage (The Final Days).

Venues

 * Old city (Khan al Wakala, Child Cultral center, MCRC Center, Sheikh Amr Arafat soap factory, hosh al Jitan, Bab al Saha)
 * Near Old City: French Institute, Hamdi Manko Center
 * Balata camp: Yafa center
 * Old Askar Camp, Dar al fonon center
 * New Askar Camp: Social development center.