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.
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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.
Check out the pictures of rituals and get-togethers in some Arab countries in the holy month of Islam, Ramadan, which began on March 23. It is a period of prayer and charity.
To celebrate the Arab Community Day in Brazil, ANBA interviewed two influential political personalities in the current government. The minister of Planning, Simone Tebet, and the federal deputy for Rio de Janeiro, Jandira Feghali.
A show featuring images and documents of over 140 years of Lebanese immigration in Brazil can be visited until April 16 in the cultural space of Conjunto Nacional in São Paulo. The exhibition is held by the Brazil-Lebanon Cultural Association.
Professor Ladimari Toledo Hoeppler is leading activities focused on the World Down Syndrome Day at the Dubai Center for Special Needs in the UAE on Tuesday (21).
The Brazilian Cooperation Agency’s Humanitarian Cooperation general coordinator José Solla visited Brazil’s Syrian Sports Club, where he signed an agreement for the government to collect and send medicine donations by plane to the Arab country hit by earthquakes in February. The emergency campaign Together for Syria is still accepting donations.
The diplomat of Syrian origin was reelected for the 2023-2024 biennium as president of the Arab Brazilian Chamber of Commerce. He will lead the entity alongside four vice presidents, a treasurer and 12 statutory directors.
The Embassy of Bahrain in Brasilia paid homage to women who played a role in the relationship between Brazil and the Gulf nation. The Arab Brazilian Chamber’s coordinator of Corporate & Institutional Services, Ana Cristina de Oliveira, was one of the honored.
Researcher Roberto Khatlab writes article on the creation of the Brazilian feijoada and the Arab yakhné, using historical facts to explain where they two meet.
To spread more information on the fight against eating disorders, Cintia da Silva seeks to donate the proceeds of the restaurant that she started in the UAE and make it a social business.
Saudi Arabia has included the position of private female driver in its online platform for recruiting domestic workers. The new feature represents progress for the country.
The Financial Action Task Force removed the Arab country from increased monitoring in its areas of activity, which include anti money laundering and combating the financing of terrorism. This fact is expected to make Morocco more attractive for investment.
Brazil’s Arab Culture Institute will hold a series of online debates on Arab culture in the coming months. The first will occur this Wednesday (1), at 7:00 pm BRT, with professor and writer João Baptista de Medeiros Vargens.
