The 2nd Sergipe Arab Dance Festival should be promoted on October 17th, in Aracaju, with participation of 15 dance companies, as well as independent dancers.
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In the past ten years, the rate of Brazilian youths enrolled in higher education institutions has doubled, from 6.9% to 13.9%.
Photographic exhibition on the Arab influence in South America will run until the 16th at the Riyadh National Museum. The display organised by the Brazilian foreign office has travelled the world.
‘The splendour of the 18th Dynasty’ will bring to the city papyruses and replicas of the Arab country’s ancient art. The exhibition will be held at the Federal University of Rio starting on the 26th.
The state of Paraíba should get a specialization on the semiarid starting in 2010. The course should help primary teachers take into consideration the local reality while teaching.
The state of Paraíba should have a course on the semiarid starting in 2010. The classes will help elementary school teachers to take the local reality into consideration when teaching.
Social, cultural and digital inclusion project Casa Brasil, in the outskirts of Guarulhos, will dedicate, starting today, a week to the Arab country. There will be debates, dancing and film screening.
Kaust will be inaugurated today by king Abdullah and intends to become a global reference in scientific and technological research. For such, the institution has an endowment of US$ 10 billion.
Emílio da Silva Museum, from Jaraguá do Sul, is promoting, starting today, a talk about Ancient Egypt. It brings replicas of items of the time of the pharaohs, like statues and mummies.
Gilberto Abrão will release his debut novel, “Mohamed, o Latoeiro”, in São Paulo, today. The author, a son to Arab immigrants, tells the saga of a Syrian who got to Brazil in the early 20th century.
The Arab Syrian Cultural Centre is going to promote a cultural evening in the city of São Paulo on September 23rd. There will be an exhibition, a lecture and film screenings.
Psychologist Síria Maria Mohamed, daughter of businessman Mohamed Zein El Abdine Sammour, published a book that teaches kids to deal with discrimination in the social insertion of children.
Shoes from both Arab countries are part of the collection being exhibited at Canoas Shopping, in Rio Grande do Sul. They are folkloric pieces like embroidered babouches and wedding shoes.
Curitiba has a cultural and gastronomic centre dedicated to an Egyptian: Alberto Massuda, a deceased artist who lived in the state from 1957 on, was one of the local forerunners of surrealism.

