Female performers from El Mihan, Algeria stand together during the Sebeiba festival dance competition in Djanet, a southeastern Algerian oasis town in the Sahara desert, on July 6, 2025. (AP Photo ...

The festival lasts 10 days, and ends with a daylong dance competition between two neighborhoods in Djanet — Zelouaz, or Tsagit, and El Mihan, or Taghorfit.

A dancer from El Mihan, Algeria prepares for the Sebeiba festival dance competition in Djanet, a southeastern Algerian oasis town in the Sahara desert, on July 6, 2025.

In the Sahara, a friendly dance competition carries on an ancient festival tradition The Sebeiba festival, a 3,000-year-old tradition of the Tuareg people, takes center stage in Djanet, an ...

The Sebeiba festival, a 3,000-year-old tradition of the Tuareg people, takes center stage in Djanet, an Algerian oasis town in the Sahara.