Rio-born Luiz Góes has served for two years as CEO of LYOPAY, a digital payment platform that’s present in 82 countries. Holding a degree in Military Sciences and an MBA in Public Management, the executive has had a successful career in the financial market.
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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.
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.
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.
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.
