The 2nd edition of the event will take place from September 26 to 29, featuring exhibitions, films and artistic performances in a bid to put Arab culture in the spotlight.
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An event featuring music, dance and cuisine will take place on September 22 and 23 at Shopping D. Refugees will be selling food and other items from tents.
An exhibit by photographer Jacques Menassa will open at 7 pm on Thursday featuring 40 collages that trace back his life story, spanning Brazil, Lebanon and France, at venue Casarão de Ideias.
Wiana Aguiar has been living in the UAE for ten years and now launched the children’s book ‘Pepa & Keca – Has Anyone Seen Rhymes Around Here?’. It’s a poetry book, many of them based in her daily life in the Arab country.
The event will take place on the 22nd in the auditorium of bookstore Martins Fontes in São Paulo as part of the Cycle of Meetings on Arab-Islamic History and Culture.
A former professor in Art History/Ancient History at Damascus University who moved to Brazil in 2013, Ayman Esmandar is also a fine artist whose work deals with mythology. He will be exhibiting in Curitiba until September 7.
Regarded as one of the most relevant historic documents from Islam, Ahmad Ibn Fadlan’s ‘Journey to Russia’ has been translated by Pedro Martins Criado and is out on publisher Carambaia.
Registrations for the 2019 Sharjah Children’s Book Illustrations Exhibition will open on December 1st.
Organized by the UN Refugee Agency, the exhibit comes for the first time to Brazil with 52 pictures of children, men and women from several countries and regions of the world.
The film festival kicked-off with Wajib, by Palestinian Annemarie Jacir, and will run until August 27 in São Paulo. For the Arab Chamber’s president, culture brings peoples closer together.
The emirate is the guest of honor of this year’s São Paulo International Book Biennial. Its standout stand at the event features books, music and art.
The Brazilian writer’s ‘A Hora da Estrela’ (The Hour of the Star) is in bookstores of major cities in Arab countries, such as Cairo, Dubai and Beirut. Egyptian researcher Maged ElGebaly translated the book into Arabic.
The Kalimat Foundation, from Sharjah, United Arab Emirates, donated 100 children’s and young adult books in Arabic to the São Paulo Library, located at Youth Park, in São Paulo.
So said Fahim Al Qasimi, the head of a delegation from the emirate, during the opening ceremony of the São Paulo book fair, which features the Arab city as its guest of honor.
