The Brazilian state won four of eight trophies granted by the prize promoted by the Ministry of Tourism in recognition for the success cases in the Tourism Regionalization Program across the country.
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Foreign students may apply for post-graduate courses in Brazil. The programme is turned to foreigners in countries Brazil has agreements with, like Algeria, Egypt, Lebanon, Morocco, Syria and Tunisia.
Starting on Thursday, the University of the State of Rio de Janeiro should receive an exhibition by photographer Hélio Shiino. Admittance is free.
The Brazilian television host is an illustrious guest in a cruise of Egypt and Tunisia by the MSC company. The trip will be the maiden voyage of the MS Splendida, MSC’s new vessel.
Brazil will promote a match for peace in the Arab country, similar to the one held in Haiti in 2004. The initiative is part of a strategy for promoting the Brazilian image abroad through sports.
In the state of Santa Catarina, a teacher devised an innovative method for teaching Ancient History. Students look for traces of Egyptian writing in daily life, and reinvent the old style of writing.
Around 20 researchers from Arab countries, mainly Algeria, are going to participate in a meeting about mixed culture in late June at the Federal University of Santa Catarina.
‘Dialogues with the Pharaonic world’ will be the theme of a conference due in the city from June 4th to 6th. The director of the Egyptian Museum in Munich, Sylvia Schoske, should give two lectures.
A book by Italian designer Vincenzo Scarpellini shows pictures of the city, in pastel. Among the sceneries identified by the foreign eye of the artist is restaurant Almanara, in the centre.
The Arab country is starting to establish a sports community and wants to become reference in Olympic education. For this, the director of the Doha Olympic Museum, Christian Wacker, is in Brazil.
Caramel, by actress and director Nadine Labaki, hits movie theatres in São Paulo and Rio de Janeiro in June. The film tells the stories and dilemmas of five women in a beauty parlour in Beirut.
Representatives of the country’s Olympic Museum will attend the International Forum on Development of Olympic Sports, to start tomorrow and end on Wednesday in the capital of Rio Grande do Norte.
Next Thursday (28th) the third edition of the Images of the East exhibition begins in São Paulo. Foreign filmmakers, among them Rawan Damen, should come to Brazil for the debates.
Artist Susana Barros will exhibit 51 items, including ceramics and vases in the city of Belo Horizonte. The exhibition, wholly inspired by Egyptian culture and Islamic drawings, opens on the 26th.
