Public school Prof. Dimas Mozart e Silva, in Taquaritinga, Sâo Paulo, is a nominee for the Zayed Future Energy Prize, which could award up to USD 100,000 to sustainable action projects. The winner will be announced in January.
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Mabrouk, from São Paulo, will represent Syria at the 45th International Folk Dance Festival, to be held on September 24 and 25 in São Paulo. Syrian sweets, clothing and accessories will be on sale.
The course ‘Islamic Art’, in October, will focus on the development of the art under the influence of Islamism. Classes will talk about how political issues were dominant factors in the area. Registrations are open.
Restorer Hela Djobbi is part of the team of experts working on the restoration of the Monument to the Independence in São Paulo.
With Brazilian Roberta Meireles as its frontwoman, women-only percussion group Bloco Rubra Rosa has been touring the Arab country. It mixes samba, afoxé and samba-reggae styles in its sound.
The Arabic professor Jihad Abou Ghouche uploads videos in the internet to teach people interested in speaking the language. In three months, there are 24 videos already, with 60,000 views.
Considered Palestine’s national poet, Mahmoud Darwish essentially wrote about his homeland. His verses will be read, along with Arab music, in a poetry reading in the São Paulo state capital on October 15.
From September 15 to 18, the exhibition in the Lebanese capital will feature works from galleries of 17 countries. For the first time, the event will present an exclusive section to Lebanese women’s works.
Student from throughout the world can register. The works have to focus on one or several of the organization’s 17 Sustainable Development Goals. Registrations are open until September 4.
Actresses Simone Kalil and Beth Zalcman star in ‘Brimas,’ a theater play inspired by their grandmothers, one of them a Lebanese Arab and the other an Egyptian Jew. The São Paulo premiere will be on Friday (26).
Four short films from Arab countries were selected for São Paulo’s international film festival, which starts this Wednesday (24). Productions come from Syrian, Egypt, Morocco and Qatar.
Next September, professors Geraldo Campos and Jair Marcatti will teach the course ‘Arab Presence in Brazilian Culture.’ From cuisine to music, they’ll show how the East’s influence permeates life in Brazil.
The Brazilian Film Festival’s first edition will run from August 31 to September 3 in Beirut. Six movies with English subtitles will be shown. The program will also include an opening cocktail reception and a debate with filmmakers.
Since 2010, Bahia state native Nadia Schwab has lived in the Arab country with her family. In her book ‘O Melhor dos Meus Dias,’ released this month, she recounts her life and experience in a culture so unlike her own.
