The Institute for Arab Culture is offering the course “The Palestinian Question—Contemporary Middle East,” taught by experts on the subject, in August at Blooks Bookstore. Registration is now open.
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Polo Cultural is organizing the Festival Cidade da Cultura at 150 locations across the city of São Paulo from July 1 to 31. There will be 35 international attractions, including the launch of a book by an Algerian author.
The institutions will sign a technical cooperation agreement in the coming months for the exchange of digitized documents and archives, as well as to conduct research.
The Sharjah Book Authority has a stand at the event, which runs through next week. A publisher from the country takes part in a business meeting.
In the book “Brimos à mesa”, journalist and historian Diogo Bercito portrays the Arab influence on Brazilian culture through recipes that have been incorporated into Brazil’s cuisine.
Karola Braga exhibited her work Sfumato in the Al Ula desert last year. The installation, which explores the aromas of the incense route, was awarded by the Institute for Art and Olfaction in Los Angeles.
The photo exhibition “My Brazilian Brazil,” by Jacques Menassa, will open at the Guimarães Rosa Institute, in Lebanon’s capital, on June 18.
Roundtable will feature Christina Queiroz, director of communication and press at ICArabe, and chef Fred Caffarena.
Author, actor, and co-director Samir Mourad draws inspiration from his family’s stories to stage “The Dog Who Refused to Die” in Rio de Janeiro.
Artist and curator Monica Hirano will take part in a residency at Kaaysa Art Residency in São Sebastião, where she will study diasporas and how they adapted to Brazil.
Religious leaders from the Antiochian Orthodox Church will speak about Christianity in Syria and Orthodoxy in Brazil during an event at Esporte Clube Sírio on May 31 at 4 p.m. The lecture is open to the public.
Intensive courses in Arabic, entrepreneurship, and Lebanese cultural heritage are available from the Holy Spirit University of Kaslik starting July 7.
Tabla publishing house releases the Portuguese edition of The Disappearance of Mr. Nobody by Ahmed Taibaoui, winner of the Naguib Mahfouz Medal for Literature.
The work Dirt and the Stars by Ahmed Lutfi features a collection of short stories inspired by legends, poets, kings, and Arab oral traditions from the pre-Islamic period. The Brazilian edition was published by Rua do Sabão publishing house.
