The Arabic-Portuguese Dictionary, by the Lebanese Alphonse Nagib Sabbagh, will be launched at the Syrian –Arab Cultural Centre, in the capital of São Paulo, on June 16th.
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The exhibition ‘6 billion Others,’ currently at the São Paulo Art Museum, brings to São Paulo the life stories of more than 5,000 people from 78 countries, among them Brazil and ten Arab nations.
The Pompeia neighbourhood unit of the Social Service for Trade (Sesc), in São Paulo, will teach students to make handicraft using geometric designs. Classes will start on June 8th.
For the first time, ‘Book of the Soul,’ written in Arabic by Avicenna, is translated into Portuguese from the original. The project took the translator, Miguel Attie Filho, three years to complete.
The hotel school of the Dubai-based group will promote student exchange with the Beijing Hospitality Institute. The Arab chain opened its first hotel in China in March this year.
The Pontifical Catholic University of Rio Grande do Sul will promote the 17th journey of Studies on the Ancient East on May 26 and 27. Life and death in ancient Egypt and Iraq are among the subjects.
The 16th Immigrant’s Party will showcase the dancing, handicraft and cuisine of approximately 20 ethnicities that inhabit the city of São Paulo. The Arabs will be among them.
The Institute of Arab Culture is promoting the 6th Arab World International Cinema Exhibition, from June 17th to 29th. The event features 15 films made in the Middle East and North Africa.
The professor at the Federal University of Paraná, Alzier Felipe Buffara Antunes, talked about Brazilian education and globalization at a meeting about the subject in Lebanon.
A total of 2,964 people sat the Portuguese proficiency test at testing centres in Brazil and abroad. Seven Arabs were among them.
The exhibition on art from Islam opened this week at the Bank of Brazil Cultural Centre and may be visited up until July 3rd.
Book ‘Caligrafia Árabe’, by the Lebanese Moafak Dib Helaihel, shows Brazilian readers how Arabic writing may be an art form.
Roughly 30 Egyptian art pieces are on display at the 5th edition of the International Handicraft Business Fair, in Brasília. They pieces will remain available for public viewing until April 24th.
Theatre actor and director Ali Mahdi Nouri was awarded by the organisation due to his artistic and social work in Sudan. He takes plays presented by orphan kids to areas of conflict.
