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Visible until January 12 at the Center for Arts and Culture, in the Palais des Raïs (Bastion 23) and Room No 4 of the Palace of Culture Moufdi-Zakaria, this major exhibition includes “Women's Ceremonial Costume in Algeria’s East of Algeria”, as well as all the “Knowledge and know-how linked to the making and creation of jewelry-Gandoura and Melehfa”.

“Women's Ceremonial Costume in Algeria’s East” was inscribed on the Representative List of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity by the Intergovernmental Committee for the Safeguarding of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO), at its 19^th session held in Asuncion (Paraguay) in early December 2024.

Several secular items in the dossier for this new listing are on display in rooms on various floors of the Palais des Raïs and the Palace of Culture Moufdi-Zakaria.

The “Gandoura”, the “Melehfa”, the “Caftan”, the “Quat”, the “Quwiyet”, the “Lhef”, the “Chachia”, the “Seroual”, the “Dekhila”, the “Lougaa”, the “Elmendil”, and the “Elhzam”, all embroidered, Chachia besoltani”, ‘Eljbine’, ‘Khit-errouh’, “Earrings - Mnaguech’, ‘Mechref’, ‘Mekhbel’, ‘Skhab’, ‘Msayess’ and ‘Khelkhal’.

Faiza Riache, Director of the Center for Arts and Culture at the Palais des Raïs, heritage researcher Mohamed Nadir Chellali and Mourad Bernoussi, Head of the Cultural Activities and Programming Department at the Palace of Culture Moufdi-Zakaria, were unanimous in stressing the “importance of passing on all this ancestral and heritage knowledge to younger generations.”[/ecr]