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AMMAN - For the third time in over 27 years, the world-renowned Jerash Festival will be largely absent from the Kingdom's cultural activities season, which will kick off in July, to come back in 2009 in a new shape, Culture Minister Nancy Bakir said on Thursday.The festival has been cancelled twice in its history: the first was in 1982 during the Israeli invasion of southern Lebanon and in 2006,