London, March 17: The British capital hosts next week a Tunisian Cultural Week, featuring its cultural treasure gained over the centuries.
The Cultural Week, organised by the Tunisian embassy, will be launched on March 24 at The Royal Geographical Society with a rich programme that includes a documentary and photographic and mosaic paintings exhibition.
The mosaic paintings and photographs depict the different aspects of life of both modern and traditional Tunisia.
Tunisia is regarded as the world’s castle of mosaics as its historic monuments feature the largest and rarest ancient mosaics, which summarize an important part of Tunisia’s history and the thriving of the civilizations that succeeded over the ages.
The opening ceremony will be followed by “Our Tunisia” musical played by Walid Gharbi group. The musical is a combination of Bedouin traditional and modern Tunisian music.
The exhibition includes a conference, organised by the Middle East Association, on doing business in the Maghreb. The conference, which will be held at the UK Department for Business Innovation and Skills Conference Centre, is a great opportunity for those who are seeking to invest in Algeria, Morocco and Tunisia.
Tunisian cinema will also feature in the cultural programme with a projection of the film “Les Baliseurs du Desert” (The Wanderers of the Desert) by the renowned Tunisian director Nacer Khemir, who kickstarted his multi-award winning desert trilogy with “Al-Haymun” (the wanderers of the desert) where fiction mixes with reality.
The aim of exhibition is to promote Tunisia’s cultural tourism through introducing archaeological sites and monuments that have illuminated the North African’s long history of contributions to human civilization for more than three thousand years.
Since the adoption of Change in November 1987, the Tunisian government has adopted a comprehensive strategy in order to promote cultural tourism through involving many ministries, particularly the Ministries of Culture and Tourism.
—Agencies