{"id":13351,"date":"2025-08-31T16:16:00","date_gmt":"2025-08-31T15:16:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dzwatch.dz\/?p=13351"},"modified":"2026-09-04T06:38:14","modified_gmt":"2026-09-04T05:38:14","slug":"traditional-costume-festival-opens-in-algiers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dzwatch.dz\/?p=13351","title":{"rendered":"Traditional Costume Festival Opens in Algiers"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a class=\"dzsl-auto-link dzsl-internal\" data-dzsl=\"internal\" href=\"https:\/\/dzwatch.dz\/?cat=1\">Algeria<\/a>\u2019s rich cultural heritage took centre stage as the 7th <a class=\"dzsl-auto-link dzsl-internal\" data-dzsl=\"internal\" href=\"https:\/\/dzwatch.dz\/?p=67444\">National Cultural<\/a> Festival of <a class=\"dzsl-auto-link dzsl-external\" data-dzsl=\"external\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Special:Search?search=Traditional%20Costume\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">Traditional Costume<\/a> opened in Algiers. <a class=\"dzsl-auto-link dzsl-internal\" data-dzsl=\"internal\" href=\"https:\/\/dzwatch.dz\/?cat=41\">Culture<\/a> and Arts Minister Zouhir\u00a0Ballalou presided over the opening ceremony, which features designers and artisans from 14 provincesaps.dz. The festival runs until 2\u00a0September and showcases hand\u2011stitched garments, embroidery and regional attire. Workshops and fashion shows aim to promote traditional craftsmanship and inspire younger generations to preserve ancestral techniques. Organisers hope the event will stimulate cultural tourism and support rural artisans whose work keeps Algeria\u2019s diverse heritage alive.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Algeria\u2019s rich cultural heritage took centre stage as the 7th National Cultural Festival of Traditional Costume opened in Algiers. Culture and Arts Minister Zouhir\u00a0Ballalou presided over the opening ceremony, which features designers and artisans from 14 provincesaps.dz. The festival runs until 2\u00a0September and showcases hand\u2011stitched garments, embroidery and regional attire. Workshops and fashion shows aim &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":13027,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"cybocfi_hide_featured_image":"","iawp_total_views":9,"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13351","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-culture"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dzwatch.dz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13351","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dzwatch.dz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dzwatch.dz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dzwatch.dz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dzwatch.dz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=13351"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/dzwatch.dz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13351\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":73771,"href":"https:\/\/dzwatch.dz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13351\/revisions\/73771"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dzwatch.dz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/13027"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dzwatch.dz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13351"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dzwatch.dz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13351"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dzwatch.dz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13351"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}