Cartoonist Riad Sattouf will be one of the 39 guest writers for this year’s edition of the literary meeting held in the city of Paraty, in Rio de Janeiro.
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The event will run from May 22nd to 24th featuring three productions shot in Arab countries or set in the Middle East. The Saudi film ‘Wadjda’s Dream’ tells the story of a girl who dreamt of riding a bicycle.
Ligia Amadio is conducting the Lebanese Philharmonic Orchestra for a concert next Friday in Lebanon’s capital. The repertoire will include a piece by Brazil’s Villa-Lobos.
The event will take place from May 14th to 23rd, in the city of Tripoli. Brazil is one of the participating countries. Among the attractions are samba and capoeira workshops, film screenings and Brazilian storytelling.
The Brazilian company already sells packages to the North African country, but says the trip is a way to prepare the professionals to sell the destination. Tunisia Tur and Royal Air Maroc are partners in the project.
Curiosities in the exhibition now showing at Santos’ Museu do Café include accounts of the product’s origins in North Africa and of the site of the world’s first cafeteria: Mecca, in Saudi Arabia.
The photo show was already seen by São Paulo and will open in the federal capital next Thursday, with the presence of Pierre Krähenbühl, commissioner-general of Unrwa. It’s his first visit to the country.
Approximately 15 million people visited the city. Of those, 30% travelled for the FIFA World Cup. Brazilians accounted for 85% of visitors, followed by Americans, Argentinians, Germans and Chileans.
‘Nabil and his friends’ was created by Arresala, the publisher of the Islamic Center in Brazil, and is distributed to schools and mosques. Through the story of the kid Nabil, the comic book promotes Muslim values.
Egypt, Morocco and Abu Dhabi registered a higher tourist influx from the country in 2015 and in March of this year. And the number could go up in the next few years, they said at WTM Latin America fair.
Brazil-Lebanon Cultural Center will show pictures about the country from its discovery until the Republic proclamation. The exhibit features 21 posters to spread knowledge to the Lebanese and the Brazilian diaspora.
The United Nations World Tourism Organization also forecasts higher growth of the industry’s revenues in South America and notes that the pilgrimage to Mecca shows potential in Saudi Arabia.
The former president of the Brazilian House of Representatives has taken office replacing Vinicius Lages. He has pledged to make tourism into in increasingly economic, social and political agenda.
The former president of the Brazilian House of Representatives has taken office replacing Vinicius Lages. He has pledged to make tourism into an increasingly economic, social and political agenda.
