‘Ancient Egypt: from day-to-day to eternity’ opens on the 12th at Centro Cultural Banco do Brasil (CCBB) in Rio de Janeiro, featuring 140 original pieces from Museo Egizio in Turin, Italy.
Author: Thais Sousa
An Arab Brazilian Chamber of Commerce event will explore an industry that grows 5% per year and is deemed strategic by the Arab country’s government, with an expected USD 71 billion in investment through 2020.
Documentary ‘Constantino’ was exhibited at the Arab Chamber last Wednesday night. Session featured a chat with director Otavio Cury, who tells the story of his Syrian great-grandfather in the movie.
A delegation from the northern Brazilian state visited the Arab Brazilian Chamber of Commerce’s international office in Dubai. Business owners are looking to carve out a market for themselves in the emirate.
The Egyptology Week begins this Monday, featuring items salvaged from the fire that tore down the venue in 2018. ‘Egyptology is still going strong. We took a blow but kept going. We resisted,’ said Pedro Von Seehausen, one of the organizers.
The company’s Brazilian arm supplies equipment to be used in works for the 2022 FIFA World Cup.
Religious leaders will reenact Francis of Assisi’s meeting with sultan Al-Malik al Kâmil al Ayoubi. Eight hundred years ago, they came together in Egypt and engaged in interreligious dialogue amid the Crusades.
The play will be performed this Wednesday, when the International Arab Dance Day is celebrated. On the stage, Arab dance will be mixed to songs from Northeast Brazil played on the accordion.
At 21 years old, Anna Luísa Beserra won the UN Environment Programme’s Young Champions of the Earth for Latin America. Her invention, Aqualuz, purifies rainwater stored in cisterns in Brazil’s semiarid area.
Brazilian musician Messer di Carlo has studied Arab percussion for seven years. He has been a teacher for four years and will give a workshop at ICAB in Brasília next Friday.
Son of a Lebanese couple, Ricardo Baroudi founded the Association of Plastic Surgeons of Lebanese Descent. He’ll be honored at the event, which starts next Thursday (19). The program features lectures by 12 Brazilian doctors.
Emirates airline and English Studies Dubai will be at São Paulo’s Work & Study Abroad Fair this Saturday (14). The event will also feature a workshop about courses in the Dubai school.
Performance by the musical group this Saturday is part of the project One Hundred Years of São Paulo Cathedral’s Crypt in São Paulo. Musicians include Yousef Saif from Palestine and Brazilian of Lebanese background Claudio Kairouz.
SESI students from Bahia will compete in the robotics championship Formula 1 in Schools in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates. Arab Chamber Information Management coordinator gave information on the Arab countries, particularly the UAE.
