University Saint-Esprit de Kaslik is developing the project for a library turned to the region. The initiative is by the Centre for Studies and Culture of Latin America, established in February.
Author: Isaura Daniel
Isaura Daniel
A journalist with a degree from Unisinos and experience in economy and finance, she has been responsible for international coverages and amassed eight journalism prizes.
Stylist Jorge Bischoff started exporting to a Saudi retail chain this year. In July, the importer should come to Brazil for a new order. Innovation and elegance are brand characteristics.
The government donated US$ 200,000 to fight child mortality and US$ 300,000 to foster family farming in Darfur. The handing-over ceremony was held in Khartoum last Monday.
Al-Máhjar, a centre for studies on Arab immigration in Brazil owned by the Icarabe, has collected roughly 400 stories of Arab immigrants and descendents. The data bank will be the subject of a study.
Last week, at the Port of Navegantes, the company shipped an oven transformer, weighing 110 tonnes, to Saudi Arabia. The buyer was a steel industry company based in the Jeddah.
Importer World Wine has started selling Tandem, a Moroccan wine, in Brazil. The first order finished before expected and the new purchase will be ten times greater.
The food and agriculture arm of the United Nations (UN) granted an award to a Brazilian research at a food security contest. It shows the success of a municipality in buying school meals from farmers.
Silvia and Mauricio Natel are having a photo exhibition on Morocco in Curitiba, their home city. The work resulted from a trip to seldom-explored routes in the interior of the Arab country.
Natucapri, an association of women from the Brazilian state of Alagoas, makes goat’s milk soap and wants to export. The Egyptian queen, known for her beauty and vanity, used to bathe in the milk.
The only footage of Lampião, a famous brigand, was by a Lebanese moviemaker: Benjamin Abrahão Botto. He showed the daily life of Lampião and his band in northeastern Brazil in the 1930s.
A program of the Brazilian Micro and Small Business Support Service (Sebrae) is providing training on how to export and import to 80 enterprises that make footwear, footwear parts and machinery.
Tunisia wants to buy calves for fattening. A representative of the Tunisian Union of Agriculture and Fisheries, in Brazil for the Dialogue Brazil-Africa Conference, seeks suppliers in the area.
Joint venture GB Polo, between Marcopolo and the Egyptian GB Auto, produced 210 buses in the first quarter of this year in the city of Suez. Plans are to export the vehicles from Egypt in 2011.
Vonpar wants its chocolates, sweets and dairy to reach all Arab countries in a year. The group bought Neugebauer, Wallerius and Mu-Mu in 2009 and has daring targets for the foreign market.
