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.
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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.
Students from the Arab country watched a talk on the issue and met with students from the Polytechnic School, in São Paulo. They also visited the Arab Brazilian Chamber.
After almost one century of work, the Assyrian Dictionary by the University of Chicago is ready and preserves words that have not been spoken for almost 2,000 years.
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.
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.

