The event will take place from June 5th to 9th at Ibirapuera Park. Attractions will include dancing, a handicraft exhibit, folklore presentations, film screenings and henna painting. Admittance is free.
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Nearly 800 years of Arab occupation in Spanish territory have left marks on the country’s vocabulary, culture, dancing and architecture. The event will take place on the 30th at São Paulo’s Cervantes Institute.
The Pan-Amazonian Book Fair, due from May 30th to June 8th in Belém, will feature lectures, films, seminars, music and other attractions highlighting the Arab world. Qatar will have its own tent.
The show ‘Longing for My Amazon’ opens on the 29th at the Brazil-Lebanon Cultural Centre, featuring 30 pictures taken by Lebanese photographer Jaques Menassa while living in Brazil.
The Arab Chamber and the Institute of Arab Culture will award the short films which best narrate the history of the São Paulo street which received immigrants. Grand prize will be US$ 6,780.
The movie Baghdad Messi, co-production of Iraq, Emirates and Belgium, is part of Cinefoot, which starts on the 22nd in Rio de Janeiro. The festival will also go to São Paulo and Belo Horizonte.
Association FFIPP is accepting entries from graduate and postgraduate students and recent graduates, until August 8th, for an immersion and volunteer work program in Palestine and Israel.
The initiative is intended to convert the emirate into an open-air art gallery. Artworks will be selected by a government organization and by real estate developers.
Meeting at UFJF, from May 19th to 21st, will address the work of Brazilian expatriate writers. Roberto Khatlab, who lives in Beirut, will speak on the acceptance of Brazilian books in Lebanon and vice versa.
Meeting will be held on the 15th and 16th, at the Holy Spirit University of Kaslik (Usek), in Lebanon. The goal is to discuss the regions’ progress and to better understand migration flows between the countries.
The event opens this Friday (25th) in the city and will continue until the 28th, featuring nine productions from countries in the Middle East, North Africa and Latin America.
Photographers André Joaquim and Leonardo Wen will spend five days in the Arab country, taking pictures of landscapes, places and people that will feature in a show alongside photos by Qataris who have been to Brazil.
Reporter Aurea Santos will speak about her experience in the learning of the Arabic language to students from UFRJ. The event will be held this Wednesday (9th) and is open to the public.
The Brazil-Lebanon Cultural Centre will start to organize a photo, sculpture and handcraft exhibit in Beirut. The first show starts on the 10th this month with images from Rio de Janeiro.
