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Museum Of Popular Arts And Traditions Of Le Kef
The Museum of popular arts and traditions of Le Kef (Arabic: متحف الفنون والتقاليد الشعبية بالكاف ; French language, French: Musée des Arts et Traditions populaires du Kef) is a Tunisian ethnographic museum located in the city of El Kef. The museum is dedicated to displaying various artifacts and historical objects that were used by various tribes that inhabited Tunisia. The museum is housed in an 18th century Sufi complex. History The museum is located in the old zawiya of Sidi Ben Aïssa. The building where the museum is located was built in 1784, this building served as the headquarters of the brotherhood of Rahmania. This building is a social and religious complex. The museum was inaugurated in 1970 and contains collections of handicrafts and ethnographic objects. In 2015, 533 people were reported to have visited the museum in that year. In 2017, following the renovation of parts of the Ghriba Synagogue in the city of Kef, real estate and ob ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Arabic
Arabic (, ' ; , ' or ) is a Semitic languages, Semitic language spoken primarily across the Arab world.Semitic languages: an international handbook / edited by Stefan Weninger; in collaboration with Geoffrey Khan, Michael P. Streck, Janet C. E.Watson; Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co. KG, Berlin/Boston, 2011. Having emerged in the 1st century, it is named after the Arabs, Arab people; the term "Arab" was initially used to describe those living in the Arabian Peninsula, as perceived by geographers from ancient Greece. Since the 7th century, Arabic has been characterized by diglossia, with an opposition between a standard Prestige (sociolinguistics), prestige language—i.e., Literary Arabic: Modern Standard Arabic (MSA) or Classical Arabic—and diverse vernacular varieties, which serve as First language, mother tongues. Colloquial dialects vary significantly from MSA, impeding mutual intelligibility. MSA is only acquired through formal education and is not spoken natively. It is ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
French Language
French ( or ) is a Romance language of the Indo-European family. It descended from the Vulgar Latin of the Roman Empire, as did all Romance languages. French evolved from Gallo-Romance, the Latin spoken in Gaul, and more specifically in Northern Gaul. Its closest relatives are the other langues d'oïl—languages historically spoken in northern France and in southern Belgium, which French ( Francien) largely supplanted. French was also influenced by native Celtic languages of Northern Roman Gaul like Gallia Belgica and by the ( Germanic) Frankish language of the post-Roman Frankish invaders. Today, owing to France's past overseas expansion, there are numerous French-based creole languages, most notably Haitian Creole. A French-speaking person or nation may be referred to as Francophone in both English and French. French is an official language in 29 countries across multiple continents, most of which are members of the ''Organisation internationale de la Francophonie'' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
El Kef
El Kef ( ar, الكاف '), also known as ''Le Kef'', is a city in northwestern Tunisia. It serves as the capital of the Kef Governorate. El Kef is situated to the west of Tunis and some east of the border between Algeria and Tunisia. It has a population of (2004 census). The old town is built on the cliff face of the table-top Jebel Dyr mountain. El Kef was the provisional capital of Tunisia during World War II. It was the command centre of the Front de Libération Nationale during the Algerian War of Independence against the French in the 1950s. The Sidi Bou Makhlouf Mausoleum entombs the patron saint of the city. Geography The highest-elevated city of Tunisia, at , its metropolitan area reaches of which lie within the interior of the old walled Medina quarter. The municipality of El Kef is shared between two national delegates, East Kef and West Kef, which correspond to the two municipal boroughs. History Etymology First known by the name of Sicca during ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
René Trabelsi
René Trabelsi ( ar, روني الطرابلسي; born 14 December 1962) is originally from Djerba, is a businessman and Tunisian politician, also having French nationality. Early career He did his secondary studies in Djerba and then went to France to continue his studies in management in 1985, at a time when Jews were particularly threatened: one of his nephews aged 5 died in an anti-Semitic shooting in Djerba. Having dual French and Tunisian nationality, he first manages franchise Franprix supermarkets in Ile-de-France before embarking on tourism. In the 1990s, he founded the tour operator Royal First Travel which specializes in Tunisia. He is also a member of the Ghriba Pilgrimage Commission, manages a four-star hotel in Djerba for ten years and is involved in the Tunisian Hotel Federation. Political career In 2011, he joined a liberal political party by the name of the Party of the Future. On 5 November 2018, during a cabinet reshuffle, the head of the Tunisian governme ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Museums In Tunisia
Following is a sortable list of museums in Tunisia. File:Bardo Museum - Carthage room.jpg, Bardo Museum File:Bestias1.jpg, Sousse Archaeological Museum File:Sarcophages carthage 1.jpg, Carthage National Museum See also *Culture of Tunisia *List of museums External links Tunisia Museums (in French) {{DEFAULTSORT:Museums in Tunisia *List Tu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
