Project Runway El Djazair is the Algerian version of the successful American reality TV show Project Runway. It premiered on November 4, 2023, on Echorouk TV. The show features 12 Algerian designers who compete to become "the next big Algerian designer". Contestants compete against each other for the best costumes and are limited in time, materials and theme. Your designs will be reviewed and one or more designers will be eliminated each week. In each episode, the selected contestants are gradually eliminated based on the judges' scores until only a few contestants remain. These finalists will prepare a complete fashion collection from which the winner will be selected. Each episode features a celebrity guest judge involved in the decision-making process.^[1][2]

Project Runway El Djazair is hosted by Maroua The Doll Beauty and judged by Karim Akrouf, Rayan Atlas and Meriem Abdellatif.^[3]

Project Runway El Djazair uses a progressive elimination approach, whittling down an initial pool of 12 or more fashion designers to three or four before the final challenge. Each episode features a celebrity guest announcing a new challenge in which the designer must develop one or more new garments to be displayed at the fashion show. Challenges range from creative diversity to testing the designers' ingenuity while maintaining their personal fashion design aesthetic. Once the challenge is announced, designers are given a budget stipend to select and purchase fabrics and ideas, and then have a limited amount of time to complete their designs. Designers usually work independently, but some challenges require participants to work in teams or as a collective group. Once the deadline arrives, the designer must dress the model and choose hairstyle, makeup, and accessories.^[4]

• Echorouk TV website