Standalone and partnership productions from Algeria, Qatar, Lebanon, Palestine and Syria are in the program. The event will continue until next Sunday (15).
Browsing: Culture
Conexões (Connections) has a database that shows where there are professionals researching Brazilian literature in other countries. Organizers want information about the work in Arab nations.
Cassiana Pizaia and Vinícius Sgarbe, two journalists, produced the documentary ‘Trip across Palestine’, which goes beyond the conventional tourism in the country. Launching will be in Curitiba (PR).
Course ‘Culture and Art in Islam’ will be taught by professor Jamil Ibrahim Iskandar from September 29 to October 27 at the Pontifical Catholic University in Curitiba, Paraná (PUC-PR).
The Brazil-Lebanon Cultural Center shows 30 photos of the state of Pará, which includes part of the Amazon. Local rivers, religious traditions and the daily lives of the population can be seen in the images until September 29.
Natan Barreto will launch ‘Bichos’ (Animals) this Friday (15) in the Arab country, where he will also attend a meeting of Brazilian writers living abroad. The book has poetry about animals and illustrations done by children.
The Global Meeting of Brazilian Expatriate Writers will run from Wednesday (13) to Friday (15) featuring authors who were born in Brazil and live in other countries. Discussions will cover their literary work.
A delegation from the emirate visited Brazil last week and discussed its presence at the São Paulo International Book Biennial, which takes place in August 2018 with Sharjah as the guest of honor.
Fisk’s Paraíso neighborhood unit made the course available after requests from its English students. Many Syrian and Lebanese descendants reside in the area.
Study group is organizing an event on September 14 at Fluminense Federal University in Niterói (RJ). Egyptian art and community organization at the time of the pharaohs will be the topics.
The play, which is based on the Stories of One Thousand and One Nights and on the conflict between Israel and Palestine, will open in the city of São Paulo on Monday (28) and runs until October 18.
Literary festival Tarrafa Literária (“Literary Throw Net”) will take place between September and October in Santos, 80 km from São Paulo. Organizer José Luiz Tahan invited authors of Arab origins to take part in the debates.
Over 500 items including necklaces, earrings, rings and bracelets built by students from a school created with Brazilian cooperation in Algeria are featured at the FIEMG gallery and at mine Mina Du Veloso, in Ouro Preto.
Casa Niemeyer (the Niemeyer House), in Brasília, is featuring a showing of photographs taken by the UK’s Jason Oddy of the buildings designed by the Brazilian architect in Algiers and Constantine.
