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It’s a busy month of November for the British Council in Tunis

Tunis, November 10, 2008- November is the busiest month for the British Council in Tunis. With three major projects scheduled, the British Council is offering its many subscribers and aficionados, an ambitious cultural program.

The projects which will centre on cinema, literature and fashion, will all take place at the end of the month.

The British Council will take part in the Tunis European Film Festival from November 20 to December 3, with the screening respectively in Sousse, Kairouan and Jendouba of Ken Loach’s “It’s a free World”.

It will also organize the third edition of its ‘Medi –Café’ project, which gathers together budding writers of fiction, poetry and reportage, whose second language is English. A workshop at the Beit El Hikma Academy, will crown the event on November 28 and 29. Young writers from Tunisia and Morocco will take part in the event.

And finally the British Council is also organising the International Young Fashion Entrepreneur Award 2009, on November 22, at the Africa Hotel in Tunis. The competition aims at supporting young fashion creators, who will be invited to present their creations in front of a jury composed respectively of 2 members of the British Council, Mrs Leila Boufaied, the Head of the ‘Golden Khomsa’ Jury, Mrs Fatma Samet, an official at the Ministry of commerce and Handicrafts, and Mrs Faten Chouba , the Director of the Fashion Institute in Monastir.

The winner will be invited to London from February 1 to 13, 2009, in order to take part in the finals along with 9 other competitors from Brazil, India, Indonesia, Poland, Saudi Arabia, Sri Lanka, Thailand and Vietnam.

The program includes a visit to the prestigious London Fashion Week.