For the International Cultural Festival of Miniature and Illumination in Algeria, I visited Tlemcen between 18-29 June and returned back to Australia with lots of great memories. Tlemcen, the capital city of Islamic culture, held the 4th of the International Miniature and Illumination Festival this year; and I am personally very excited to be there and feel their breathtaking cultural and historical atmosphere. I arrived to the capital city...

The name of Tlemcen, originally “Tala Imsane” (“dry spring” in Berber), highlights the Berber origins of this city whose population blended later on with the Arab Muslim race and other ethnicities from Andalusia, the Mediterranean islands, and other parts of Europe to make today’s Tlemcen. Tlemcen is a town in Northwestern Algeria, bordered by the Mediterranean on the North, the Wilaya of Naama on the South, the Willayas of Ain...

4th International Cultural Festival of Miniature and Illumination is going to be open in the Imama Palace of Culture on 20th of June and will remain open until 20th of July 2011. The International Miniature and Illumination Festival has been started in Algiers since three years ago. However, 20ll is an extraordinary year in the history of the Algerian culture in particular, and the Islamic one in general. Tlemcen is the capital city of the...