Syria’s Art History doctorate holder Ayman Esmandar is giving an overview of the country’s history during the 2nd International Meeting on Language in the Ancient World next June in Porto Alegre, Brazil. He’ll also discuss the Phoenicians.
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Initiative from the project Creative Displacement will feature a Syrian and a Palestinian telling and mediating Arab stories, some of them from books donated by the Emirate of Sharjah.
Archaeologist Moacir Elias dos Santos took two groups of people to the Arab country last January. The results were great and he’s planning another excursion in October.
Michel Zoghzoghi’s ‘Pantanal, Land of the Jaguar’ will run from April 25 to May 15 at the Brazil-Lebanon Cultural Center. Admission is free.
Ethno Brazil will award 13-day artist residencies to musicians age 18 to 30 in São Paulo, Brazil. An Algerian woman joined the program’s 2018 edition. Registrations are open through May 10.
Created by two Jordanians and with a full female Arab cast and crew, the original series ‘Al Rawabi School for Girls’ will be a high school drama.
Units of the Social Service of Commerce throughout the state of São Paulo will host screenings of movies made in several countries, including ‘Yara,’ which is set in Lebanon with directing from the French-Iraqi Abbas Fahdel.
Publisher Zahle is releasing Marta Tajra’s ‘Brimos – A História da Imigração Árabe para o Brasil,’ de Marta Tajra, no in São Paulo’s Syrian Sports Club on Saturday.
The Brazilian saxophonist played a sold-out concert on Wednesday at Yarmouk Cultural Center.
An Arabic version featuring texts by 12 contemporary authors, including upcomer Marcelo Maluf and household name Milton Hatoum, will be introduced at the Abu Dhabi International Book Fair. The Arab Chamber is a partner for the project.
Eight contemporary productions can be watched this weekend and the next at Instituto Tomie Ohtake in São Paulo. The movie festival is part of the photo exhibition Taswir. Entrance is free.
International Congress of Arab Music, Dance and Culture runs from April 12 to 14 in São Paulo.
The Rosicrucian Egyptian Museum in Curitiba has created a second ‘facial approximation’ of the Tothmea mummy, which is part of its collection. The work was done using the latest technology and will be presented this Tuesday.
The 24th edition of the gastronomic event is running from this Friday (29) to April 21, covering roughly 190 establishments.

