Expenses in Brazil totalled US$ 469 million, a reduction of 5.7% over the same month last year. The result was the best for the period.
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A theatre group from São Paulo has arranged children’s play ‘Wonderful Stories for Albak’, inspired on the ‘Arabian Nights’. It tells, in Arab style, the stories of Amina, Harun, Abud and Badna.
The Ministry of Tourism launched on Wednesday the Aquarela 2020 Plan, for promotion of Brazil abroad. Up to the end of the decade, the country hopes to attract 11.1 million visitors.
Next Tuesday, cultural centre Casa das Rosas will promote the Middle Eastern Poetry Evening. Classical and contemporary poems from the region will be read.
The institution is the result of a partnership between public and private companies and should start operating in 2012. Teaching should be based on that of Lausanne Hotel School, in Switzerland.
Next Wednesday, a poetry recital will be held to honour Mohamad Al Kaddah, director of the Arab Syrian Cultural Centre. He is returning to his country of origin, Syria, after six years in Brazil.
In the book ‘In the Arabian Nights,’ released recently in Brazil, the Anglo-Afghan writer Tahir Shah combines stories of his life in the Arab country and characters of local culture.
There has been a 1.3% increase in throughput last October, as against the same month last year. In passenger transport, the growth was 1.8% in the same comparison, according to ACI.
The Brazilian writer is revered by researchers, translators and professors in the United States, Europe and Latin America. The result was culled from a survey disclosed in the city of Rio de Janeiro.
A survey conducted among 2,000 citizens in Rio de Janeiro showed that 5% dream of getting to know Dubai. The most desired target, however, is Disneyland.
An event with Arab music, dance and typical food brought the 28th Arab Culture Week to a close in Campinas. A city in Brazil where there are around 80,000 Arab descendants.
Exhibition ‘Immigrant Press in São Paulo’ brings newspapers and magazines produced by immigrant communities since the 19th century. Among them is paper Al Afkar, published by a Lebanese.
In ancient times, the most famous site in Jordan was the capital of the Nabataeans, who migrated from the Arabian Peninsula over 1,000 years before the Arab expansion in the Middle East (7th century).
A group of Foreign Trade students from the São Judas University, in the city of São Paulo, paid a visit to the Arab Brazilian Chamber today.
