Opening of the Tunisian cultural days from May, 22nd to 25th 2011

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Tunisia participates in the event of
"Tlemcen, capital of Islamic Culture 2011"

From 22nd to 28th of May 2011, Tunisia shall contribute to the event "Tlemcen Capital of Islamic Culture 2011". ISESCO chose this city because of the importance of its geographical location for trading caravans as well as its strategic situation as a starting point for several Muslim conquests.
The deep Islamic past of this city and the different philosophical and sophist waves that crossed it are represented through several monuments and places of worship such as mosques and Zaouias.In addition to its rich and diversified past, its intellectual and geopolitical situation in the middle of Maghreb, deserved it the nick name of "Grenade of Africa".
On this occasion, Tunisian cultural ministry prepared a rich cultural program and film screenings such as "Thirty" produced by Fadel El Djeziri, "Ouejd" by Mahmoud Ben Mahmoud, "Majnoune Leîla" by Taîeb EL Ouahichi and many feature films reflecting Tunisian daily life. Many short documentaries such as "The Book"o, "Al Zaîtouna the heart of Tunisia", "Ribat", "Saquia", "The Birth" ...etc, are also included within the program .
Theater will be present in this event through several plays such as "A letter to my mother" by Salah El Faleh.
Tunisian song shall fulfill its role by hosting Tlemcen long evenings. Artistic troops "Essalem" of Cheikh Mohamed Belhadj" and "Zahrat El Adjnaf", shall glorify the richness of patrimony songs through a talented purely Tunisian staging. There shall be too, rich and diversified exhibitions of books, paintings and calligraphy all made by Tunisian artists. Two poetry evenings hosted by Djamel Essalihi and Khaled El Ouaghalani, are also planned.
Conferences dealing with the reality of Tunisia cultural and literary scene shall be organized and presented by great professors such as Nadjoua El Cosantini, Mohammed Abdel Adim and Djamel Draouil under the title "Freedom according to Intellectual Revolution Pioneers in Tunisia".