Brazilian women shared their experiences with businesswomen from Libya and Palestine in a webinar hosted by the ABCC’s women’s committee on Monday, March 8. COVID-19 has highly impacted the lives of women in both regions.
Author: Isaura Daniel
Private Cosméticos of Brazil, which specializes in vegan products, has been offering halal items since early last February. Now, the goal is to expand in Muslim markets.
ABCC’s women’s committee will host webinar ‘Arab Women Who Inspire’ on Monday (8). A Libyan and a Palestinian woman will discuss their experiences in leadership roles. Registration is open.
Brazil’s ambassador to Khartoum, Patrícia Maria Oliveira Lima, spoke with ANBA about the prospects for foreign cooperation and manufacturing amid a new phase in the country. She would like to see more Brazilians involved.
Established February 2019, the organization’s international outpost has been working to enable tighter relations between Brazil and the Arab countries, in trade as well as from an institutional standpoint.
The organization presented its schedule of activities for the year. Online events will continue throughout the first half, after which in-person, online and hybrid activities will take place, including six remote B2B events.
The organization partnered up with the Confederation of Trade and Business Associations in Brazil (CACB) and the service is being made available in São Paulo and Itajaí since early February. Preferential certificates of origin are a requirement for eligibility for tariff breaks or tariff exemption in trade with countries that sustain free trade agreements with Brazil.
The region’s countries went through the Covid-19 crisis with relative resilience, but they have undergone significant changes, according to the economist Jarmo Kotilaine, who spoke during an Arab Chamber webinar on Thursday (11).
In an ABCC webinar on Thursday (11), lawyer Ronaldo Lemos said the world lives in a data economy and countries must turn knowledge into an economic value to develop.
How are the Brazilian and Arab economies in this second year of COVID-19? Which innovations will the world live with from now? These are some of the topics of the webinar the ABCC will host on Thursday (11), when it will also present its 2021 activities calendar.
Whereas early on in the pandemic whatever foreign travel from Brazil was taking place was accounted for by executives and the younger demographic, now that vaccination is on the horizon, older tourists are beginning to seek travel packages and flight tickets.
This Monday (1st), Muslim and non-Muslim women are posting pictures of them wearing the veil on social media to support hijab wearers. This is the World Hijab Day, which is promoted in Brazil by a group of the University of São Paulo.
School Integra Educação Avançada and magazine Diáspora have opened registrations for online classes on Lebanon crisis and the Curds.
The businessman Mohammed Darwich sells crystal chandeliers by the Egyptian brand Asfour in Brazil. He branched out last year by opening a new store and selling customized corporate gifts made of crystal.

