The National Library Foundation is enrolling foreign publishing houses interested in promoting authors from Brazil abroad. The funds are US$ 3,000 for each initiative.
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Movie maker Otavio Cury celebrates the positive repercussion of the movie he made about his Syrian great-grandfather. He talks about the production and about projects under development.
The photograph exhibit on Arab presence in Latin America will be on show at the ONA Foundation’s Villa Des Arts as of next Friday (7th). The show has already been made permanent in Morocco.
University of Brasília professor Cláudia Balduíno Ferreira created a site about the main authors and books in French in the region and has already even organized a seminar about Algeria.
Registration goes up to October 2nd. There are posts in the 58 graduate courses offered by the Federal University of São Carlos. The institution has units in São Carlos, Araras and Sorocaba.
The Brazil-Lebanon Cultural Centre is offering intensive courses in Portuguese language and Brazilian culture in September. The classes are targeted at basic-level students.
Rotana Media Group is seeking musicians of several styles to create melodies for Arab musicians. The company’s musicians include names like Amr Diab, Fares Karam and Najwa Karam.
The literary event that began on Thursday, in São Paulo, includes comics about Islam, new releases, book distribution to the public and a debate about the culture of the Middle East and North Africa.
Next Monday (6th) in São Paulo, the journalist Carlos Abumrad will release the book ‘The Lebanese and Syrians who make Brazil.’
Relations between both regions will be the theme of a colloquium to take place in November, in Kaslik, Lebanon. Talks will include economics, politics, diplomacy and culture.
Thirteen pieces will be on display at the celebrations of the 50th anniversary of the World Crafts Council in Latin America, late this month, in Uruguay. The items were selected by Unesco.
The storyteller Hamed Bouzzine will give two performances in São Paulo, on July 28th and 29th. In different shows, he will tell stories ranging from the Sahara to the myths of the Mandinka Empire.
Tod Laursen, of Abu Dhabi’s Khalifa University, visited São Paulo to attend a congress in computational mechanics. One of his goals was to look for educators who are also researchers.
Ahmad Rashwan will come to São Paulo to discuss movie ‘Born on the 25th of January’, to be shown in the second part of the 7th Arab World Cinema Exhibit. The programme begins on Tuesday (17).
