Exhibitions and presentations will take place from June 29th to August 2nd in São Paulo and from August 5th to 10th in Rio de Janeiro. There will be photo displays, fashion, arts and crafts, music and other attractions.
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Hossam Ramzy will be featured in workshops, concerts, lectures and an Arab dance immersion course in Recife, Rio de Janeiro and Águas de Lindóia in August. He has produced songs for Shakira and Ricky Martin.
The benefit targets researchers interested in projects involving one or more pieces from the library’s collection. Registration is open until July 24th. Applicants must be fluent in Portuguese.
The unit of the University of São Paulo in the city of Ribeirão Preto will offer an extension course on women in Islam, with an anthropological approach. The classes are free and start at the end of August.
Alongside higher education institution Faculdades Rio Branco, the organization offered a custom-tailored MBA course in Management and Leadership in Trade and International Relations.
FAAP is hosting a lecture cycle in São Paulo with one of the foremost specialists in Egyptian archaeology in Brazil, Antonio Brancaglion Junior. Classes will be taught on Saturdays from September to November.
Unesco inscribed one more Iraqi archeological city on the list of World Heritage in Danger, due to damage inflicted by armed groups. Ashur and Samara are already on the list.
In July, the Brazil Lebanon Cultural Center will start offering in-company Portuguese language classes, due to existing demand from business executives.
Palestinian-Israeli conflict awareness raising association is accepting registrations until August 10th from Brazilian university students interested in doing an immersion in 2016. The program has a cost.
Free classes will take place at the Citizenship Integration Center – West starting August 22nd. Registrations are open until July 10th. Refugees can attend.
After 53 years in Brazil, professor Helmi Nasr will go back to his homeland. The translator of the Koran from Arabic into Portuguese, he feels his mission is accomplished. ‘I return to Cairo at peace.’
The Brazilian Foundation has issued a new open call for foreign publishers interested in releasing works by Brazil-based authors in their countries. The first deadline for entries is July 29th.
The city welcomed last week a team of the International Theatre Institute headed by its president, the Arab Mohammed Saif Al-Afkham, to prepare for the congress, which will receive artists from several parts of the world in 2016.
Jamil Iskandar, a professor of Medieval Arab Philosophy, was invited to spend three months studying the French museum’s collection, whose highlights include manuscripts and calligraphy techniques.
