A group of businessmen from Minas Gerais, Brazil, led by trade association ACMinas, will be in the UAE on November 7 to spread awareness of the state’s economic potential and to join business meetings.
Author: Isaura Daniel
Online magazine Revista Pessoa will release translated works by 12 writers, including Milton Hatoum, Raduan Nassar, Marcelo Maluf and Socorro Acioli next year, via a partnership involving Abu Dhabi’s Kalima Project for Translation and the Arab Chamber.
Starting on Monday (22), the Human and Social Sciences Center of university Unirio will hold many activities – lectures, art exhibitions, fashion shows and storytelling – focusing on Egyptian queens.
An Arab Chamber workshop to executives in state capital Porto Velho this Monday (15) covered the economic potentialities of Arab countries. Local leaderships are planning new meetings and a mission for next year.
Natan Barreto will launch his book ‘Um Quintal e Outros Cantos’ (A Backyard and Other Corners, loosely translated) at the Brazil-Lebanon Cultural Center on October 24. In the book, the author evokes his memories and puts them into verses.
During an event at the Arab Chamber this Tuesday, Foreign Ministry officials and Apex-Brasil executives went in-depth on the mission to the Arab country that they will hold in November, led by foreign minister Aloysio Nunes.
The Brazilian company manufactures a wide range of polymer products to the medical, cosmetics and home appliances fields. It has been in the Arab markets of Morocco, Egypt, Jordan and expanding to the Gulf.
The Arab Chamber and the Sebrae-RO will hold a workshop to small and medium-sized companies on October 15, in the capital Porto Velho.
Brazil’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Apex-Brasil will hold, on October 9, a meeting at the Arab Chamber’s headquarters to present to business owners a mission to the Arab country in November. Registrations for the meeting are open.
Registrations are open until October for companies interested in doing the architecture and exhibition design project for Brazil’s pavilion in the world exhibition set to take place in Dubai two years from now.
The Brazilian singer will play a show at the Moroccan National Library at 8 pm next Wednesday (3), in an initiative of the Embassy of Brazil in Rabat. Admission is free.
Students at Univali, in Santa Catarina, expressed their interest in joining an exchange program with universities in Arab countries. They attended a lecture by the Arab Chamber special projects adviser and Egypt’s commercial consul to São Paulo.
The organization will have a stand to promote Arab countries as tourist destinations at Festuris, which will take place from November 8 to 11, in Rio Grande do Sul.
Opportunities for doing business with the Arab market and the Egypt-Mercosur free trade agreement will be discussed during an event to be held by the Arab Chamber next Wednesday (26) at the Univali campus.

