At mystery festival, Muslims and Christians chant `Zambo, Zambo´, wear wigs and body paint. But ...
(WorldNews France)

Residents of the Lebanese city of Tripoli donned bright, curly wigs and dark body paint Sunday for Zambo, a mysterious festival on the eve of the start of the Orthodox Christian period of Lent. The origins of the annual celebration remain unclear, even to celebrants. It only seems to take place in a seaside suburb of Tripoli, a Muslim-majority city with an Orthodox minority. But that has never dampened revellers, dozens of whom hopped and danced their way through Tripoli’s streets,......