Specialists in Arabic studies from Brazil and Portugal have kicked off a process to create an association. The effort was discussed and gained new members in a meeting in Rio this week.
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Sarah Mansur won on Wednesday the Miss Lebanon Immigrant, promoted in Beirut. The Brazilian competed against another 24 candidates from 19 countries, including another Brazilian.
Among the 16 films scheduled, there are productions by directors from Tunisia, Lebanon, Egypt and Iraq. The exhibition should take place at four sites in São Paulo.
The first Symposium of Portuguese and Brazilian Arabists should take place on August 31st at the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro. Specialists in Arab studies should analyse the activities.
The Service of Industrial Education should show teachers in Morocco how to teach professionalizing classes to people with special needs. The exchange should take place up to the end of this year.
The anthropologist and professor at Fluminense Federal University, Paulo Hilu Pinto, is collecting figures and stories for the elaboration of a book about the Arabs in the state of Rio de Janeiro.
A group of 19 Brazilians of Syrian descent is in the country for the 1st Expatriate Youth Forum, which brings together a total of 90 people from 12 countries, plus 60 native Syrians.
The theme park selected the Arabic literature work as the theme of its school holiday schedule. Characters from two tales walk around the park and stage scenes.
The break up, by e-mail, of a relationship between Algerian-born French writer Grégoire Bouillier and French artist Sophie Calle is the theme of an exhibition on display in the capital of São Paulo.
Representatives of the two nations will attend the international conference of the Theatre of the Oppressed in the city from July 20th to 26th. They follow the school of theatre in their countries.
Publishing house Martins Fontes launched book "Nelson Mandela’s Favorite African Folktales" in Brazil. The work retrieves tales told among populations in African countries, among them Morocco.
Scenes of Globo TV network’s next soap opera, "Viver a Vida," were shot in the cities of Petra, Amman, Jerash, and in the desert of Wadi Rum, featuring Thiago Lacerda and Taís Araújo.
Foreign students may apply for post-graduate courses in Brazil. The programme is turned to foreigners in countries Brazil has agreements with, like Algeria, Egypt, Lebanon, Morocco, Syria and Tunisia.
Starting on Thursday, the University of the State of Rio de Janeiro should receive an exhibition by photographer Hélio Shiino. Admittance is free.
