Featuring two art exhibitions, authors’ meetings, debates, film screenings and music group performances, the Travel Literature Festival in Rome casts an eye on the East.
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The 99, a group of super heroes developed by the Kuwaiti Naif Al-Mutawa, will have a Brazilian member. He should have his first appearance in the miniseries that will join the team to Justice League.
A project develops a children’s book to tell the story of 44 Unesco world cultural and natural heritage sites in Italy. The idea is for the initiative to be reproduced in other countries.
The organisation, responsible for promotion of Arab culture in Brazil, should promote, on Thursday, a culture festival with Arab and Gypsy dance and Samba, among others.
Lebanese singer Tania Kassis will perform in Brazil and Argentina to raise funds for the Saint George Hospital, Beirut’s oldest. In the city of São Paulo, the concerts will take place in November.
Three university students from Porto Alegre established workshops to show children the history of Egypt in an interactive and creative way. Activities include the assembly of a mini museum.
The 5th Arab World Cinema Exhibition will show 14 previously unseen films in São Paulo. The films approach two main topics: migration and the female universe. The festival is promoted by the Icarabe.
Enrolment is open for the postgraduate scholarship program for foreigners. Among Arab countries, students from Algeria, Egypt, Lebanon, Morocco, Syria and Tunisia are eligible.
The organization, which fosters the establishment of libraries in South America and in Arab countries, will offer courses for youths aged 13 to 19 in São Paulo. Classes should start next week.
A son to a Lebanese mother and an Amazonian father, musician Salomão Habib, from Belém, bases his guitar and lute work around Arab and Brazilian Indian influences. He is planning a concert in Lebanon.
Next Thursday, the Syrian Arab Cultural Centre will promote a poetic evening featuring poem readings and music. The event will celebrate the 30th anniversary of the Poetic Movement of São Paulo.
Lute player Sami Bordokan and ballerina Cristina Antoniadis are going to play at Bella Música project, on Friday, in São Paulo. The show should begin at 11:00 pm.
Sponsored by the Qatari sports committee, photographer Caio Vilela travelled to eight Arab countries photographing street football. Now he wants to make the exhibit into a book to publish in Brazil.
Images taken in Alexandria, from a taxi, are part of the work The Fifth Day, by Italian artist Carlo Zanni. In the pictures, some details change according to statistic figures for the country.
