São Paulo – The director at Latin American Studies and Cultures Center (LASCC) at the Holy Spirit University of Kaslik (USEK), Roberto Khatlab, has met with Arab Brazilian Chamber of Commerce leaders in São Paulo to advance on the Digitization Project of the Memory of Syrian and Lebanese Immigration in Brazil, which was launched by the two institutes around two years ago. USEK is a Lebanese university.
The project intends to digitize documents with the history of immigration in Brazil, including photographs, certificates, letters and newspapers. With representations of the Arab Chamber, Khatlab visited Club Homs and the Public Archive of the State of São Paulo, both partners of the project. He traveled to Brazil for the parade of the Império de Casa Verde samba school, which had Lebanon as its plot-theme. Khatlab helped in the historic research on the Arab country to create the plot-theme.
In the Arab Chamber, Khatlab was welcomed last Friday (27) by the Chamber’s International Relations vice president Omar Chohfi, cultural director Silvia Antibas, the project’s coordinator Heloisa Abreu Dib Julien and intern Mirna Nasser. The group also met with publicist Toberto Duailibi, who has a project of immigration memory retrieval.
Pictured above, Chohfi, Julien, Duailibi, Antibas, Nasser and Khatlab.
Translated by Guilherme Miranda
