North American program offers opportunities to researchers from developing countries to submit their projects and receive funding. Brazil and five Arab countries are among the eligible nations.
Browsing: Culture
The production talks about the Arab culture through the letters of two Syrian immigrants and will return to São Paulo January 23. Set in a kitchen, it allows the audience to taste typical dishes.
Manuscripts by Britain’s Miriam Pease Bo Sauber, the grandmother of journalist and writer Wilma Ary, were released in Arabic language this month in Lebanon. The book is a memoir of World War One.
The course with refugees from the Abraço Cultural (Cultural Hug) project will offer Arabic classes from January 11 to February 5, 2016. The basic level classes will be taught by Syrian teachers. Enrolments are open.
UNESCO declared December 18 the date of Arabic worldwide. On this Friday (18), the organization’s director-general Irina Bokova dedicated the celebration to science and knowledge dissemination.
The Brazilian writer has published ‘Socrates and Thomas More – Imaginary Letters’ in the language of his ancestors. He attended the launch event in Beirut.
Visual artist presented paintings of Brazilian landscapes to guests at the Arab Chamber’s headquarters in the city of São Paulo this Tuesday (8th). The works will be donated to the ambassadors of the Arab countries in Brasília.
Partnership between the Brazilian federal government and the São Paulo City Hall opens 200 slots for immigrants and refugees to learn the language. Enrolments will be accepted from December 3rd to 12th.
Images of facial expressions of fear and loneliness around the world, including Morocco and Palestine, are featured in Geraldo Melo’s Detours exhibit, set to open on the 8th in Campo Grande.
The event ‘The East close to us: journeys and stories from yesterday and today’ will take place on December 3rd in the city of São Paulo. Speakers will discuss topics such as refuge, media and philosophy.
The books by the Brazilian author, son of Lebanese immigrants, will be the topic of a series of lectures next week at University of São Paulo, in the city of São Paulo, in a celebration for the author’s 80th birthday.
A photo and film exhibition of the UN launches at Centro Cultural Correios on Thursday (12th) and will run until January 10th, portraying work done with refugees in Gaza, the West Bank, Jordan, Lebanon and Syria.
The Arab country’s national day, November 22nd, will see additional activities and a cultural space. Immigration pictures will be on show, a bookstore will open and Arabic lesson premises will be enlarged.
The event ‘We’re all immigrants’ will take place on Saturday (7th) and Sunday (8th) at São Paulo’s Museum of Image and Sound (MIS), featuring a photo exhibit, a film and debates.
