Dancer Maira Mattar, daughter of a Lebanese immigrant, decided to take Arab dances, like belly dancing, dabka and Bedouin dances, to the outskirts of Rio de Janeiro. Apart from the rhythm, the adolescents learnt to rescue their self-esteem through dance.
Author: Mark Ament
Facamp, a college in the interior of the southeastern Brazilian state of São Paulo, has set up a nucleus of Arab studies for its International Relations students. The group is made up of 13 students who are going to focus on the history, culture, economics and politics of the 22 countries of the League of Arab States. On Thursday they visited the Arab Brazilian Chamber.
Facamp, a college in the interior of the southeastern Brazilian state of São Paulo, has set up a nucleus of Arab studies for its International Relations students. The group is made up of 13 students who are going to focus on the history, culture, economics and politics of the 22 countries of the League of Arab States. On Thursday they visited the Arab Brazilian Chamber.
The shipments generated US$ 730 million in October, 57% more than in the same month last year. Agribusiness was the main cause for the performance, mainly sugar, whose sales to the region grew 170%. In the accumulated result for the year, exports have exceeded the result for the whole of 2005.
The products made by Fame, an industry from the state of São Paulo, southeastern Brazil, are shipped to Egypt disassembled, where they are finished by Lotas, an Egyptian company that has operations in Brazil. Products from there are distributed to another five countries in the region. The company is working on spreading the culture of electric showers in the Arab market, which tends to use gas.
Agência Brasil* Brasília – Brazilian foreign sales totalled US$ 3.121 billion last week, a slight reduction when compared to the previous week. Imports, in turn, maintained their rhythm of growth, reaching US$ 2.347 billion. With this, the trade balance surplus in the week was US$ 774 million and in seven working days in November, the
From the Newsroom* São Paulo – Brazil exported 255,892 tonnes of chicken in October, a reduction of 1.61% when compared to the same month in 2005. The shipments generated US$ 310.5 million, 11.83% less than in October last year. The figures were supplied today (13) by the Brazilian Poultry Exporters Association (Abef). Although poultry sales
From the Newsroom* São Paulo – The first Brazilian hydrogen cell powered bus will be delivered tomorrow (14) by the Ministry of Mines and Energy and the Metropolitan Company of Urban Transport of São Paulo (EMTU). The event will take place at the EMTU offices, in São Bernardo do Campo, at 09:30 am. At the
Agência Brasil* Brasília – Biofuel projects based on sugarcane farming on irrigated areas in Minas Gerais, Bahia and Piauí are getting closer and closer to implementation. Today (13) a technical cooperation agreement considering bio-ethanol and biodiesel projects will be signed between the São Francisco and Parnaíba Valley Development Company (Codevasf), the Agricultural Cooperation Company (Campo)
Business on Rails, which took place last week in the city of São Paulo, southeastern Brazil, had 140 exhibitors and for the first time included stands by exhibitors from Spain, France, South Africa, India, Germany and the United States. Around 6,000 visitors went to the fair during the three days of the event.
Index, the largest furniture trade fair in the Middle East, opened doors for new national companies to enter the Arab market. Approximately 80 orders were made during the event, for a total of US$ 3 million. The fair ended in Dubai on Saturday (11).
The organization ended its participation in Project Jordan, a construction sector fair in Amman, the capital of Jordan, on Friday (10). Arab Brazilian Chamber representatives who participated in the fair want to return to Jordan with a delegation of businessmen next year.
Agência Brasil* Brasília – The minister of Justice of Brazil, Márcio Thomaz Bastos, is going to participate today (10), in Brazilian capital Brasília, in the 20th Meeting of Ministers of Interior of the Mercosur and in the 26th Meetings of Ministers of Justice of the Mercosur. The meeting is going to include the ministers of
