Rome – Three art shows themed after the Arab world are attracting visitors in Paris and Rome up until April 2013. Aladdin, Sinbad the Sailor, Scheherazade and other characters from the classic One Thousand and One Nights book are now showing at the Arab World Institute in Paris. The show was inaugurated this week and
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Rome – …to North Africa. Not only Brazil has noticed the commercial importance of the Arab market in coming years. The Russians are also eyeing the countries, mainly those of North Africa. This week, for example, Sonatrach and Gazprom placed the cornerstone for an agreement on production and exploration of liquefied natural gas (LNG). According
Italian museum has important items from Egypt, contained in several sites and monuments. The Roman Empire and Cleopatra, contraband of the 18th Century and digs last century link it all.
Among the new Italian authors, the Algerian Amara Lakhous is standing out. In his book, he humorously deals with themes like immigration and bias.
The organization’s reform, unstable food prices and biofuel production were some of the issues touched on by the new director-general during his first press conference.
The former minister received 92 votes of a total of 180 nations voting. Graziano will be in office from January 2012 to July 2015. This is the first time a Brazilian is nominated director general.
Featuring two art exhibitions, authors’ meetings, debates, film screenings and music group performances, the Travel Literature Festival in Rome casts an eye on the East.
A project develops a children’s book to tell the story of 44 Unesco world cultural and natural heritage sites in Italy. The idea is for the initiative to be reproduced in other countries.
Images taken in Alexandria, from a taxi, are part of the work The Fifth Day, by Italian artist Carlo Zanni. In the pictures, some details change according to statistic figures for the country.
In the World Cup’s first week, a Moroccan is invited to coach a team based in Trento, Italy, which is known for being hard on immigrants. In the country for 18 years, El Houssine Maani celebrates.
MAXXI, a museum designed by Iraqi architect Zaha Hadid, puts the Eternal City, known for the Coliseum, the Trevi Fountain, and other monuments, on the map of international contemporary art.
Al Jarida is an Italian-Arabic weekly newspaper geared towards Moroccan and Egyptian immigrants living in the region of Lombardy, which comprises the city of Milan.
Project ‘Mare Nostrum’, of the European Commission (EC), forecasts the creation of a tourist and cultural route connecting six cities of the Mediterranean, repeating ancient Phoenician trade routes.
The Brazilian writer is revered by researchers, translators and professors in the United States, Europe and Latin America. The result was culled from a survey disclosed in the city of Rio de Janeiro.
