A five-year agreement signed between São Paulo Football Club and OCP S.A. from Morocco will organized the travel of youths aged 14 to 17 to practice with the Brazilian team’s youth players.
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A dramatic reading of ‘A Prophet in New York’ covers the travels of the Lebanese poet in the North American city in the early 20th Century. The presentation is on November 12, in São Paulo.
Films from Brazil, Argentina, Chile, Colombia, Uruguay, Peru, Venezuela, Mexico, El Salvador, Portugal and Spain will be shown in Beirut, from October 31st to November 8th.
Brazilian and Argentine productions should participate in the 10th Dubai International Film Festival, from December 6th to 14th. The event should also include works from the Middle East, Africa and Asia.
The Saudi prince granted a translation award in São Paulo and stressed ties between Brazil and his country. The Brazilian João Baptista Vargens, a professor at UFRJ, was among those awarded.
Tickets for the FIFA Club World Cup can be purchased online. From November on, they will be sold at the stadiums’ box offices as well.
International arm of the Doha-based organization has entered into an agreement with the city hall to teach classes at government schools in Rio de Janeiro. Approximately 130 children are covered thus far.
Participants will be required to write an essay in one of the organization’s six official languages, which include Arabic. The text cannot be in the applicant’s mother tongue. The winners will go to New York.
The Brazilian minister of Sports said that of the 12 host cities in Brazil, only six haven’t finished construction work and stadium improvements. All, however, are at advanced stages.
In a talk at the Arab Chamber, professor Arlene Clemesha, from the University of São Paulo, should speak about the origin of the Arab people, from Islamism to the golden age.
São Paulo’s Beth Abi shows 78 pictures inspired in daily life in Lebanon, the land of her grandparents. The show ‘Roots’ will run from October 10 to November 9 at the Brazil-Lebanon Cultural Centre.
The Brazilian Lebos Chaguri should dispute the Formula 1 H2O Nations speedboat championship, in Doha and Abu Dhabi. Son of a Lebanese father, he will be on the Lebanese team.
Researcher João Baptista Vargens studied Brazil’s former emperor’s book collection on Arab countries, or in Arabic, currently at the National Library, in Rio de Janeiro. His results were published one week ago.
Productions from Jordan, Qatar, Algeria, Egypt and Iraq are being shown at an event to end on October 10, in Rio de Janeiro. Productions from other countries also cover themes in the region.
