Television series Morangos com Açúcar (Strawberries with Sugar), from Portugal, had scenes recorded in Ceará. The program is aired in Portugal, Romania and Syria.
Author: Isaura Daniel
The per capita volume of renewable water resources is decreasing in the Arab countries due to population growth. As a consequence, the region is implementing desalination and reuse projects.
United States-born John Tofik Karam, a great grandson of Lebanese, will launch today in São Paulo a book on the Arabs and neoliberalism in Brazil. It has already been published in English in the US.
Students at FEI University Centre are selling ice cream to collect funds. The money should be turned to social projects in several parts of the world, among them schools in Jerusalem and Bethlehem.
The country will present its system for participative management of water basins at the World Water Forum, this month, in Turkey. Some 150 countries, among them the Arab ones, will be represented.
The Brazilian women’s rugby team competed last weekend in the United Arab Emirates and finished in tenth. It was the first-ever Latin American participation in the championship.
The minister of Sudan, Al-Zubair Bashir Taha, spoke about the agricultural growth plans of his country while visiting the Arab Brazilian Chamber. Sudan wants Brazilian technology to produce more.
The Candido Mendes University in Petrópolis, state of Rio de Janeiro, will promote an event about the Arab country from March 9th to 30th, including a photo exhibition, film screenings and debates.
In October, the city will host an international magic festival similar to the one held in Marrakech. This month, government officials from the state are going to the Arab country to attend the event.
The company, one of the main agricultural producers in Brazil, had 54.9% of gross revenues of US$ 185.3 million, connected to exports last year.
Company Bag For Life produces handbags that join fashion and ecology. They are made out of ecologically correct and reusable materials. After launching itself in Brazil, the company wants to export.
The Brazilian market imported 5,800 tonnes of sardines from Morocco in January this year. The Arab country produced one million tonnes of fisheries last year.
NC Internacional, from São Paulo, is in charge of the release of a retail chain of luxury Brazilian brands abroad. The first boutique should be opened in the Emirates, in December.
Movie director Paulo Nascimento should complete full-length movie ‘Em Teu Nome’ in July. The film tells the story of a student and Brazilian political exile, who lived in Algeria in the 1970s.

