“The Swimmers” will be screened this Saturday (6) at Esporte Clube Sírio, in São Paulo, at 4:00 pm BRT. Admission is free for club members and guests.
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Postcards featuring an art that illustrates a book on Sudan will be sold to raise funds for a project in the Arab country. Professor Patricia Teixeira Santos, who studies Sudan and is the author of the book, participates.
The classes via Zoom will take place on Thursdays on May 4 and 18, and June 1 and 15, from 7 pm to 9 pm. Enrollments are open.
Engineer Wael Zizo moved from Egypt to Brazil six years ago and today owns Cairo Bar in the capital city of Rio Grande do Sul, Porto Alegre. The place has an Arab atmosphere, with decor, music, food, and drinks from the region.
Writer and researcher Roberto Khatlab (pictured below) pens an article on the newspapers, magazines, and books produced by the first Arab immigrants in Brazil. The works followed the trends of the Arab Renaissance and were digitized in a project by the Lebanese university USEK and the Arab Brazilian Chamber.
In a Portuguese and Arabic bilingual version, the book showcases the experiences of Brazilian author and film producer Vitor Graize in a Lebanese mountain community.
Followers of Islam celebrate this Friday (21), the end of Ramadan, Eid al-Fitr. It is a time of prayer, festivity, and public holidays in countries with Muslim populations.
Around 40 children visited the headquarters of the Arab Brazilian Chamber of Commerce in São Paulo to learn more about the history of Arab immigration to Brazil.
The Arab country received over 1.47 million tourists in the period, obtaining USD 1.671 billion in revenue.
The sport’s confederation in Brazil announced the names of the athletes called up to the men’s and women’s teams for the Wheelchair Basketball World Championship in the United Arab Emirates in June.
EgyptAir’s president confirmed to ANBA the start of charter flights between Cairo and São Paulo in September and said it is the first step towards a regular nonstop operation.
A survey by the Itaú Cultural Observatory based on 2020 data points to the importance of the sector in generating wealth in the country. Companies in the industry account for 2.4% of Brazilian exports.
The Yemeni island is one of the earth’s remotest and most untouched places. Cristiano Xavier takes groups to spend a week camping in the mountains and beaches of the Arab island.
Joyce Karine de Sá Souza won a scholarship at the Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library in the United States. She’s studying the work of Mustapha Khayati, a social critic that was part of the Situationist International.
