Ana Paula Paura, from São Paulo, did her post-graduate research on transculturality in negotiations with the Arabs. In her work she teaches how to consider difference while buying and selling.
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At the end of the month, Salvador should stage an International Ethnical Music and Dance Festival, from regions like the Balkans, India and the Middle East. The Egyptian Mohamed El Sayed should teach.
Rania Al Abdullah, of Jordan, should visit the Apprentice City-School, which offers communications and art courses and activities to youths from 4 to 21 years of age. The project is Unicef sponsored.
Minas Gerais-born belly dancer Mariana Barros is one of 14 girls competing for a US$ 50,000 prize in a show by TV network LBC. She spent 45 days in the Arab country.
The agreement, which forecasts free e-mails and access to new digital technologies to all students and teachers in state schools, makes Brazil the first country to offer this kind of service.
On Friday, 11 students from Armando Álvares Penteado Foundation leave on a student mission to the country. They are going to visit companies, government organisations and other initiatives.
An orchestra includes 19 children who study in public schools and are from a low-income region in Campinas. They are learning how to play instruments imported from Egypt, Tunisia, Syria and Palestine.
Michel Sallouti, in Brazil for 50 years, is going to inaugurate his first individual exhibit at the West Gallery on Wednesday. Entitled White Souled, Sallouti brings 27 white works.
Architect, designer, art director, photographer, set designer and writer. A grandson of Syrians, Rafic Farah is a multimedia artist who dreams of working with architecture in the Arab countries.
The minister of Education of Brazil, Fernando Haddad, said Brazil-Arab cooperation in the area is still below its potential, recalling initiatives with other countries in South America and worldwide.
The exhibition, to take place this month, should include miniature replicas and images of the Akhenaton, Tutankhamun and Ramses II dynasties. They were brought by Egyptologist Marisa Castello Branco.
Amal Murkus should have four shows in the city of São Paulo and in the interior of the state up to September. The singer is known worldwide for her defence of Palestinian and Arab music.
Unicamp has inaugurated the Cultural Centre for Inclusion and Social Integration, to promote the coffee festival next year. The event should have among its attractions Arabica coffee, of Arab origin.
Poet Michel Sleiman, a Professor in Arabic language and literature at the University of São Paulo, is going to promote a Diwan of contemporary poetry with Arab dance and music interventions.
