Brazilian businesswoman Maria Eduarda Becker has made her career in Dubai, where she founded Três Marias Coffee and partnered up with trading company Ally Coffee in the MENA region. Innovating during the pandemic, she launched an instant coffee made from specialty beans, a pioneer product in the Middle East.
Author: Thais Sousa
The need to simplify Brazilian law in order to bring in further investment from Arab countries was one of the topics in discussion in an online debate on Thursday (20) hosted by business group LIDE RS. Arab Brazilian Chamber of Commerce president Rubens Hannun was a featured guest.
‘Clebs’ and ‘So What If The Goats Die?’ are some of the shorts to be screened online in the 31st São Paulo International Short Film Festival. Program includes live lectures, too.
Street artist Tarsila Schubert owns The Cave DXB. The studio operates as a gallery and a creative space for Dubai-based artists from different countries.
Brazilian Secretariat for Ports director of New Concessions and Port Regulation Policies Fabio Lavor said that despite the pandemic, the highest industry throughput on record is expected this year. He spoke during a webinar hosted by the Arab Chamber and the Union of Arab Chambers this Wednesday (12).
By using the Geographic Population Structure (GPS) method, a research revealed the Arab presence in the Brazilian state of Ceará. The study was published in the book ‘The Cearense Revealed: A DNA journey unveils our ancestry.’
In the Brazilian semiarid, there are saltwater-tolerant forage plant species. They are part of the interest of the UAE’s International Center for Biosaline Agriculture (ICBA) in the agreement signed with Embrapa. On the other hand, Brazilians aim to know more about genetic resources and technologies developed by the Arabs.
Brazilian imports of oil from the Arab countries fell by 15% in H1. According to EPE, the sector saw a lower demand for fuels and products related to mobility, which have been reduced to curb the spread of the coronavirus.
A healthy, internationally popular food, ginger is also synonymous of profitability for the small farmers that grow it in Brazil. Demand has increased since the coronavirus pandemic started.
Mimos do Líbano founder Sâmia Raule Sassine has been reinventing traditional Lebanese dishes for eight years now. She seasons the food with zaatar, pepper and olive oil produced by her own family in Northern Lebanon.
For her doctoral work at the University of Oxford, Brazilian Egyptologist Thais Rocha looked into the notion of ‘home’ in connection with the worker villages of Ancient Egypt. She joined fieldwork in Amarna, where public areas were also viewed as places of residence.
Governor Romeu Zema conferred online with UAE authorities to discuss investments in the state. Other officials including Brazil’s vice president Hamilton Mourão joined in, as did the mayor of Varginha, Minas Gerais – the city is seeking Arab funding for a technology center.
An online event marking the 68th anniversary of the Arab Brazilian Chamber of Commerce featured testimonial footage of Arabs and descendants thereof who have risen to the forefront of their professions discussing their origins. All take pride in the history they’re part of.
An unprecedented study commissioned by the Arab Brazilian Chamber of Commerce found that the Arab community in Brazil numbers at 11.61 million, 45% of whom are in the A and B income brackets.
