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A group of students from the Arab country is in Manaus and met with the state’s deputy governor, saw a talk at the Federal University of Amazonas and visited an animal rescue project.

Tunisian filmmaker Raja Amari, currently in São Paulo to attend a festival, claims that the region’s production is more authorial now. She reveals that her next film will be about illegal immigration.

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.

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 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.