UNESCO to Consider Maghrebi Couscous for Intangible Cultural Heritage Status

In this regard, the president of the Arab World Institute (IMA), Jack Lang, gives his full support to the candidacy of the Maghreb countries (Morocco, Algeria and Tunisia) for this registration with UNESCO.

"I am very happy that the Maghreb countries have united to propose the candidacy of this emblematic dish that makes millions of people dream from one side of the Mediterranean to the other and around the world," he said to the MAP.

For the former French Minister of Culture, "it is fantastic to see that, on a cultural issue, the countries and peoples of the Maghreb have united," welcoming the fact that he had "got UNESCO to accept the idea of an intangible heritage for gastronomy."

The three Maghreb countries filed a joint application a month ago for the inscription of this dish, a culinary specialty of North Africa, on the representative list of intangible heritage.