The Qatar Foundation International’s #ISpeakArabic competition will review videos of people discussing their Arabic studies and why they do it. The winner will get USD 500.
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Nagib Nassar, a professor at UnB, established a foundation for scientific development and launched a contest to offer a BRL 10,000 grant to Brazilians doing research on cassava.
Son of immigrants, Romeu Abílio, a retired judge, launched the book ‘Lembranças minurcas’ with memories from his family and the Syrian-Lebanese community that settled in the Minas Gerais city of Guaxupé.
Foreigners can apply from January 10th to March 10th. Classes start in August. The candidates need to have previous basic knowledge of the language. The program offers full scholarships.
Foreigners are no longer required to leave the country during the process in order to extend the validity of their visit visas. The service is available for a USD 155 fee.
North American program offers opportunities to researchers from developing countries to submit their projects and receive funding. Brazil and five Arab countries are among the eligible nations.
The production talks about the Arab culture through the letters of two Syrian immigrants and will return to São Paulo January 23. Set in a kitchen, it allows the audience to taste typical dishes.
Itaipu Tourist Complex is running for the World Tourism Organization Awards’ Innovation in Research and Technology category, and the culinary tourism project Fartura, in Innovation in Enterprises.
Manuscripts by Britain’s Miriam Pease Bo Sauber, the grandmother of journalist and writer Wilma Ary, were released in Arabic language this month in Lebanon. The book is a memoir of World War One.
The third and fifth most sought-after destinations among air ticket buyers on website ViajaNet were respectively Morocco and Egypt. The number one spot was Cancún.
The course with refugees from the Abraço Cultural (Cultural Hug) project will offer Arabic classes from January 11 to February 5, 2016. The basic level classes will be taught by Syrian teachers. Enrolments are open.
UNESCO declared December 18 the date of Arabic worldwide. On this Friday (18), the organization’s director-general Irina Bokova dedicated the celebration to science and knowledge dissemination.
The trademark of the Moroccan airline will be on the game-day jerseys of Santos Futebol Clube starting in 2016. The partnership was announced this Friday (11th) and was being negotiated since the middle of the year.
The Brazilian federal government estimates that passenger numbers at airports across the country are set to drop 20% over the comparable period in 2014.
