Myfather, Pierre Lehn, then a baker, was veryinterested in music, played the pianoand the organand became later, having given up the bakery, the organistof thecity.
It brings together over 60 participants from 15 countries from the Middle East region (Bahrain, Egypt, Iran, Iraq, Israel, Jordan, Lebanon, Libya, Kuwait, Palestine, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Syria, Turkey and United Arab Emirates) and four Nobel Laureates, namely Claude Cohen-Tannoudji (France) 1997 Nobel Prize in Physics, Richard Ernst (Switzerland) 1991 Nobel Prize in Chemistry, Dudley Herschbach (USA) 1986 Nobel Prize in Chemistry, Jean-Marie Lehn (France) 1987 Nobel Prize in Chemistry.