The Institute of Arab Culture (Icarabe) has invited a group of specialists on the matter to teach classes on Tuesdays in June and July. Enrolment opens on the 25th.
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Silvia and Mauricio Natel are having a photo exhibition on Morocco in Curitiba, their home city. The work resulted from a trip to seldom-explored routes in the interior of the Arab country.
Architecture professors Joseph Nasr, from Beirut, and June Kosimar, from Toronto, spoke in São Paulo about the Tripoli exhibition hall, a project by the Brazilian architect.
A holiday trip to Syria and the discovery of a 500-page book written in classical Arabic accidentally gave origin to the feature film Constantino, by the Brazilian Otavio Cury.
A display by the Arab Culture Institute and the University of Campinas will screen ten films on the Palestinian drama, plus images of life in the West Bank and Gaza Strip by two photographers.
Children’s book ‘Operation Rescue in Baghdad,’ by Luciana Savaget, was translated into Arabic and is read by Palestinian children. In the book, an operation saves fictional characters amidst a war.
Some of the items belonged to the last dynasty of Egyptian monarchs. The site, once a palace owned by princess Fatma Haider, descendent of Mohamed Ali Pacha, underwent a long restoration process.
Next Sunday, Cosmópolis, directed by Otavio Cury, will premiere in the Arab world, at the Cervantes Institute in Damascus. After the screening, the director will take part in a debate.
The Abu Ghid Folk Orchestra will play a concert featuring Egyptian folk and religious songs in the capital of São Paulo on Wednesday. This will be the group’s first performance in Latin America.
Tunisian artist Jean Paul Ganem is the author of a work of art covering 17,000 square metres that will turn former slum Aldeinha, in São Paulo, into a park and a stage for artistic performances.
Author of ‘Gabriela Cravo e Canela,’ Jorge Amado was the Brazilian writer that put Arabs and descendants in evidence the most in his plots, the most famous being the Syrian Nacib.
From April 27 to August 03, the Comic Book Library of Curitiba will offer a course in Arabic calligraphy with calligrapher and fine artist Moafak Dib Helaihel. Enrolment is already open.
The Syrian-Lebanese Hospital and the Embraer Institute, of the Brazilian aircraft maker, will inaugurate a health laboratory next Tuesday to help impoverished youths pick their careers.
The vice president of the American University of Beirut, Hassan Diab, visited São Caetano do Sul Municipal University and plans to return to sign agreements.
