Tripoli, 26 November 2013:

The Hun annual Autumn Festival, now in its 17th year, will be held this weekend, from 28 to 30 November.

The two-day festival will feature exhibits of local costumes and culture. There was no festival in 2011 and last year's was a very small affair. The festival had become a tourist event but, since the revolution, it has refocused on local traditions.

The desert town of Hun is some 600 kilometres south-east of Tripoli.