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Mostaganem Theatre Festival in Mostaganem
Algeria's oldest continuously running theatre festival, founded in September 1967 in the coastal city of Mostaganem by pioneering playwright Ould Abderrahmane Kaki, dedicated specifically to amateur, non-professional theatre and credited with training generations of actors, directors and writers across more than fifty subsequent yearly editions.
Ould Abderrahmane Kaki, a pioneering figure in Algerian theatre who transformed popular oral expression into a genuine stage language rooted in local culture, founded the National Amateur Theatre Festival of Mostaganem in September 1967, an event now widely described as the oldest continuously running festival of its kind at the Arab and African scale.