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The theme song of São Paulo samba school Vai Vai is the ‘Future Quilombo,’ and its parade will exalt the Nubian Dynasty. The Egyptian archaeologist and Egypt’s ambassador visited the school’s headquarters.

Featuring photographs, videos and cartoons, the exhibit ‘Palestine – from river to sea’ will focus on the so-called ‘al Nakba,’ Arabic for ‘the catastrophe,’ a reference to the foundation of Israel and the beginning of the Palestinian exodus from the region.

‘The Book of Muhammad’s Ladder’, an Arab work with plot structures that were reproduced in ‘The Divine Comedy’, was translated by Brazilian researcher Fernanda Pereira Mendes and will be launched for the first time in Portuguese.