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LEBANESE ROCKET SOCIETY

By Joana HADJITHOMAS, Khalil JOREIGE

Documentary - Completed 2012

- Year of production
- 2012
- Genres
- Documentary
- Countries
- LEBANON
- Languages
- ARABIC
- Director(s)
- Joana HADJITHOMAS, Khalil JOREIGE
- Producer(s)
- Edouard MAURIAT (Mille et Une Productions), Georges SCHOUCAIR (Abbout Productions), Fares LADJIMI (Mille et Une Productions)
- Synopsis
- From 1960 to 1966, a space project was undertaken in Lebanon. Several rockets, which became larger and more powerful with time, were launched from the hills surrounding Beirut by a group of scientists, university students and army experts. This group, led by Manoug Manougian, was called: The Lebanese Rocket Society.