A Brazilian government program is selecting students from countries that have agreements with Brazil. Eligible Arab countries include Algeria, Egypt, Morocco, Tunisia, Lebanon and Syria. Enrolments for next year will be accepted through September 30.
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From September 10 to December 2, Brazil African Film Festival will screen movies from eight different countries in the Cine África project on Cinema em Casa com SESC’s website.
Street artist Tarsila Schubert owns The Cave DXB. The studio operates as a gallery and a creative space for Dubai-based artists from different countries.
For her doctoral work at the University of Oxford, Brazilian Egyptologist Thais Rocha looked into the notion of ‘home’ in connection with the worker villages of Ancient Egypt. She joined fieldwork in Amarna, where public areas were also viewed as places of residence.
The country will shut down from July 30 to August 3 and then from August 6 to 10. Apart from some activities, institutions, private enterprises and banks will be closed.
A survey conducted by Ibope and H2R and presented during an online Arab Brazilian of Commerce event has shown that the grandchildren of original migrants make up the bulk of the Arab community in Brazil. Next in number are second- and fifth-generation Arabs.
The Doha, Qatar-based carrier did not stop flying amid the pandemic. It has, however, brought down frequency to five-a-week.
Arabs immigrated seeking promising lives, commercial success and prosperity. As a result, they thrived and contributed to the country’s growth.
ANBA spoke with Laura di Pietro, who founded the publishing house alongside Ana Cartaxo. This month will see Table start releasing fictional work by Arab, Turkish and Iranian writers, translated directly into Brazilian Portuguese.
Documentary series ‘The History of Diet in Brazil’ is available on Amazon Prime Video. The eighth episode, ‘African Diet,’ talks about the influence of enslaved Arab-Muslim Africans in Bahia’s traditional dish.
Documentary film ‘Dâd in São Paulo’ (2018) features professors and students from the University of São Paulo’s Department of Oriental Languages. Filmmaker Abdurrahman Abu Hasna has been living in Brazil for a year and a half now.
Learn a bit more about the history of Arab Chamber Cultural director Silvia Antibas, one of the recipients of the 2019 UNESCO-Sharjah Prize for Arab Culture announced earlier this month.
Several Arab productions are available on streaming platforms and subscription services such as Netflix, Net Now, and Amazon Prime Video. Check out our selection.
The donation will go to children and teenagers undergoing cancer treatment at the Santa Casa de Misericórdia Central Hospital, in the downtown São Paulo neighborhood of Vila Buarque.
