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.
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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.
Georgetown University Qatar, of Doha, will fund researches on mobility, displacement and forced migration in the Middle East. The grants can reach up to USD 25,000. Registrations are open until September 15.
The show ‘Tomorrow everything will be alright’ runs from September 3 to December 3 at Galpão VB in São Paulo. The Lebanese artist’s first solo exhibit in Brazil portrays affections from the Middle East through video installations.
‘Arab Music: Expressiveness and Subtlety’ takes place in September. The classes will cover topics such as people’s relationship with music and the differences from Western rhythms. Registrations are open.
The exhibition ‘Challenges and Realities’ portrays students from several countries benefited by Qatar’s Educate a Child program. The exhibit is open until August 21 at Bayt Qatar.
The group Mutrib is a conflation of artists who work to make the music of the Eastern Mediterranean and the Balkans known in Brazil. Two shows are scheduled for the next few days in São Paulo.
