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The discussion ‘Brazil and the Middle East: shaping new patterns of connections?’ is set for October 19th and 20th at USP. The meeting will cover the relationship between the countries post-Arab Spring.
Céu, from São Paulo, will perform in Beirut on the 19th this month. Her style is an amalgamation of Brazilian, African and Jamaican rhythms. She is also playing in Turkey and in European countries.
The famous Moroccan choreographer Bouchra Ouizguen will bring singers and dancers from her country for the 8th Contemporary Dance Festival in late October. They combine contemporary and traditional dance.
The Law School at the University of São Paulo will train 20 volunteers from October until February. From March on, students will provide assistance to refugees and migrants arriving in Brazil.
Songwritter and professor Fernando Lewis de Mattos will talk about five string instruments and ancient musical systems in Sumerian, Greece and the Arab world. The course is set for Monday (5th) and admission is free.
Zahle publishing company from Teresina, Piauí, publishes works that prioritize projects about countries, culture and business from the Middle East and North Africa.
Bianca da Silva began to teach classes in the Portuguese graduate course at Aswan University this week, as part of her post-doctorate research and of a partnership between the Egyptian and Brazilian education institutions.
NGO will hold a charity bazaar on September 26th in the city of São Paulo. The meeting will have sale of goods and presentation of music, dance and other activities. The goal is to raise money for refugees studying Portuguese.
Mohsen Elhahdy Said will go over the state of higher education in Egypt in a seminar at the Brazilian Academy of Sciences next week. The key subject is the development of education in the BRICS countries.
In a lecture at the Arab Brazilian Chamber, USP professor Arlene Clemesha said the world cannot be neatly divided into opposing regions and that Islam is rooted in freethinking.
The Brazil-Lebanon Cultural Center will apply the Celpe-Bras test, which attests mastery of the Portuguese language, from April 2016. In October, the organization starts offering a prep course for the exam.
Moema Olival, from Goiás state, releases book in which she analyses how the Arab culture influenced the works of six Brazilian authors of Lebanese descent.
Conflicts prevent access to the educational system in Syria, Iraq, Lebanon, Jordan, Turkey, Yemen, Libya, Sudan and Palestine, according to a report by UNICEF. The targeting of schools is one of the causes.
