The Saudi-Brazilian Youth Forum starts on Monday (27). The participants will visit social, sports and environmental programs in São Paulo, Manaus and Rio de Janeiro.
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The National Education Council has started reviewing the rules for revalidation in Brazil of diplomas from foreign countries. The objective is to make it more agile.
The Santa Cecília University will offer a basic course in Arabic language. Classes will begin in August, and will be available in the morning and in the afternoon.
A report from the International Labour Organization shows 115 million children worldwide are performing hazardous work, a figure that represents nearly half of all child labourers (215 million).
University of São Paulo creates a space to encourage academic projects on Asia and the Middle East. The first book with articles will be released in August.
The Arabic-Portuguese Dictionary, by the Lebanese Alphonse Nagib Sabbagh, will be launched at the Syrian –Arab Cultural Centre, in the capital of São Paulo, on June 16th.
The exhibition ‘6 billion Others,’ currently at the São Paulo Art Museum, brings to São Paulo the life stories of more than 5,000 people from 78 countries, among them Brazil and ten Arab nations.
The Pompeia neighbourhood unit of the Social Service for Trade (Sesc), in São Paulo, will teach students to make handicraft using geometric designs. Classes will start on June 8th.
For the first time, ‘Book of the Soul,’ written in Arabic by Avicenna, is translated into Portuguese from the original. The project took the translator, Miguel Attie Filho, three years to complete.
The hotel school of the Dubai-based group will promote student exchange with the Beijing Hospitality Institute. The Arab chain opened its first hotel in China in March this year.
The Pontifical Catholic University of Rio Grande do Sul will promote the 17th journey of Studies on the Ancient East on May 26 and 27. Life and death in ancient Egypt and Iraq are among the subjects.
The 16th Immigrant’s Party will showcase the dancing, handicraft and cuisine of approximately 20 ethnicities that inhabit the city of São Paulo. The Arabs will be among them.
The Institute of Arab Culture is promoting the 6th Arab World International Cinema Exhibition, from June 17th to 29th. The event features 15 films made in the Middle East and North Africa.
The professor at the Federal University of Paraná, Alzier Felipe Buffara Antunes, talked about Brazilian education and globalization at a meeting about the subject in Lebanon.
