Theatrical play ‘Lebanese Letters’ premieres this Friday telling the story of character Miguel Mahfouz, who relocated from Lebanon to Brazil in 1914. The script is based on accounts given by actual immigrants.
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.
Brazilian delegation that will attend the World Social Forum next week will include officials from the government, such as minister Ideli Salvati, and from the black, women’s, students and union movements, among others.
Brazilian Radji Schucman took a two-year trip in which he shot daily life and its contrasts in five countries. The images are on display in an exhibition in the capital of Santa Catarina until April 17th.
A São Paulo-based maker of cheque and barcode readers has shipped product to the Arab country until 2011 and plans on taking advantage of the high dollar price to resume selling to the region.
Lebanese Tufic Nabak moved to Brazil as a teenager and made his career as a dancer and teacher of dabke, the joyous Arab folk dance. He currently teaches the cast of the TV mini-series Dois Irmãos (The Brothers), at Rede Globo.
Usek has started working to gather records of the arrival of Lebanese people in Latin America. Argentina will be the first country researched; Brazil will be the second. Archives will be available online.
Convention and festival of Arab dances and culture will happen on April 10th through 12th at WTC Events Center, in the city of São Paulo, with workshops, a fair, shows by foreign dancers and other attractions.
The Franca-based men’s shoes company will attend business meetings with importers in Dubai in late March. The brand has been shipping products to the region for approximately 30 years now.
A park in Brazil’s Rio Grande do Sul state harbors a waterfall almost 2 kilometers long on the Uruguay River. The woods shelter tapirs and jaguars.
Coofava, a cooperative based in Valença, sends 52 tons of piassava coconut monthly to Egypt. The product is feedstock for the production of masbaha.
The children’s play will open at Sesc Pompeia, in the city of São Paulo, on February 28th. In the show, two clowns present one of the stories of One Thousand and One Nights.
The establishment of the group will be the theme of a meeting of the Brazil-Saudi Arabia Joint Commission, which will be held in Brasilia in April.
Heads of government from Brazilian cities who won awards from Sebrae for fostering small businesses have travelled to the emirate, Sydney and Auckland to learn about the local management.
The Library of South American-Arab Countries (Bibliaspa) is selecting photographs that portray cultural ties between the two regions for an exhibit slated for March in São Paulo. Entries are open.
