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Thirteen productions from the Middle East and North Africa integrate the 36th São Paulo International Film Festival. The event will run from October 19th to November 2nd at 28 theatres.

Show ‘The Mediterranean Approach’ features photos, video-installations, short films and sculptures relating to the Mediterranean Sea and it surroundings. It will run at Sesc Pinheiros until January.

Gilberto Abrão, author of ‘Mohamed, O Latoeiro’, will be the honoured at the 30th Novo Hamburgo Regional Book Fair. The author, who is already working on his third work, was elected on the Internet.

Brazilian art gallery Bolsa de Arte participates in Art Dubai, a fair in the sector that takes place in the Emirates, every year. Products are sold to collectors in several countries.

Five international productions address contemporary subjects such as the Arab Spring and conflicts in Syria. The show will feature in several theaters in Rio de Janeiro up until October 11th.

Program provides support for students from developing countries to sit masters and doctorate courses in the country. Algerians, Egyptians, Lebanese, Moroccans, Syrians and Tunisians may apply.

Built in the internal patio of the French museum, the new space should exhibit over 3,000 works of art created in Islamic countries. The collection covers a period of 1,300 years.

Photographer Marcos Muniz’s ‘Amid Walls and Ideas’ show, in São Paulo, portrays the lives of Palestinians and Israelis in cities divided by walls covered with words of protest for a free Palestine.