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Date	Day	Occasion	Days Off
January 1	Sunday	New Year	1*
January 6	Friday	Armenian Christmas	1*
January 10	Tuesday	Al Adha	2*
Jnauary 31	Tuesday	Hijra New Year	1*
February 9	Thursday	St. Maron	1*
February 9	Thursday	Ashoura	1*
February 27	Monday	Begining of Catholic Lent
March 6	Monday	Begining of Orthodox Lent
April 10	Monday	Prohet's Birthday	1*
April 14	Friday	Good Friday (Catholic) ¹	1*
April 16	Sunday	Easter (Catholic)
April 21	Friday	Good Friday (Orthodox) ¹	1*
April 23	Sunday	Easter (Greek Orthodox)
May 1	Monday	Labor Day ²	1*
May 6	Saturday	Martyrs' Day & the Press ²
May 25	Thursday	Resistance & Liberation Day ³
August 15	Tuesday	Assumption Day	1*
September 24	Sunday	First Day of Holy Ramadan
October 23	Monday	Al Fitr	2*
November 1	Wednesday	All Saints' Day
November 22	Wednesday	Independence Day	1*
December 25	Monday	Christmas	1*
Total Days Off			16
Total Official Holidays			14
Total holidays			22
* Official Holiday
¹ Should those two holidays (Good Friday) fall on the same day, closing will take place on Friday and Saturday next.
² Labor Day is celebrated on the first Sunday of May (May 7). Should it fall on Sunday or a holiday, private sector organizations will close the following day except for hospitals, phamacies, and bakeries, on the basis that the latter should double pay their staff for the day.
³ Resistance & Liberation Day is celebrated on the second Sunday of May (May 14).

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