Egyptian heart surgeon-turned-satirist Bassem Youssef will perform on 3 August at Beiteddine Art Festival, one of Lebanon's major cultural events which this year spans between 8 July and 9 August.

The Egyptian satirist, rose to popularity with the five minutes episodes of The B+ Show he launched on YouTube in March 2011. He then continued with the popular weekly show El-Bernameg (The Programme) on Egyptian television. The show was cancelled in 2014 and he has since moved to the United States, where he filmed the documentary Tickling Giants.

In early 2016, Youssef revealed that he has signed a deal to present a news show titled The Democracy Handbook, to be aired in spring on the American digital platform F-Comedy.

Launched in 1985, the Beiteddine Art Festival "came as an act of faith in Lebanon’s cultural role and power of creativity, a call for normality amidst the chaos and madness of war. It was born and has grown in very difficult times and made it against all odds," we read on the festival's website.

"As of 1987, when Nora Joumblat and an Executive Committee took over the organisation of the Festival, it gradually gained regional and international recognition" and throughout the years it hosted hundreds of important international artists and spanning across music, performing and visual arts.

All events take place within the 200-year old Palace in the Chouf mountains, considered to be a jewel of Lebanese architecture.