Tunisia: Inscription of Couscous and Charfia Fishing On Unesco's List of Intangible Cultural Heritage, Celebrated

Tunis/Tunisia — A special day was organised Wednesday afternoon at the Chedli Klibi City of Culture by the Ministry of Cultural Affairs to celebrate the official inscription of "the knowledge, know-how and practices related to the production and consumption of couscous" and the Charfia fishing in the Kerkennah Islands on the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation (UNESCO)'s list of Intangible Cultural Heritage.

The event, which included an exhibition of pictures and traditional tools related to the Charfia fishing technique and a screening of two films, was chaired by Acting Culture Minister Habib Ammar and attended notably by Minister of Social Affairs Mohamed Trabelsi, Governor of Tunis Chedli Bouallegue, Tunisia's Ambassador and Permanent Delegate to the UNESCO Ghazi Ghrairi, Head of the Culture Department and Heritage Protection Programme at the Arab League Educational, Cultural and Scientific Organisation (ALECSO) Hayet Ketat and representatives of embassies of Algeria, Mauritania and Morocco.

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