Documentary ‘Constantino’ was exhibited at the Arab Chamber last Wednesday night. Session featured a chat with director Otavio Cury, who tells the story of his Syrian great-grandfather in the movie.
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The Egyptology Week begins this Monday, featuring items salvaged from the fire that tore down the venue in 2018. ‘Egyptology is still going strong. We took a blow but kept going. We resisted,’ said Pedro Von Seehausen, one of the organizers.
Kaaysá Art Residency, on the beach of Boiçucanga, in the north coast of São Paulo, will receive Arab artists for four weeks. Applications are open until October 31.
Movie about director Otavio Cury’s great-grandfather will be screened at the Chamber’s auditorium on October 2nd at 7 pm. Admission is free.
Paintings by 12 artists from Brazil are on display at The Cube, within the Central Park Towers complex in Dubai’s financial district. The artworks portray a colorful, lavish country.
The play will be performed this Wednesday, when the International Arab Dance Day is celebrated. On the stage, Arab dance will be mixed to songs from Northeast Brazil played on the accordion.
The 11th edition of international literature festival Tarrafa Literária will run from September 25 to 29 in Santos, São Paulo. The panel ‘Fiction in Arab Veins’ will take place at 5pm on the 26th, featuring authors Cristina Judar and Marcelo Maluf.
Brazilian musician Messer di Carlo has studied Arab percussion for seven years. He has been a teacher for four years and will give a workshop at ICAB in Brasília next Friday.
Brazilian singer-songwriter talked to ANBA about his Lebanese father, the future of the band Tribo de Jah and his new group, Fauzi Beydoun & The Soul Vibe, which will soon release their second album.
Performance by the musical group this Saturday is part of the project One Hundred Years of São Paulo Cathedral’s Crypt in São Paulo. Musicians include Yousef Saif from Palestine and Brazilian of Lebanese background Claudio Kairouz.
The new Brazil-Lebanon Virtual Cultural Library project, comprising digitized works, is slated for release in November.
Beirut’s Brazil-Lebanon Cultural Center will welcome Fernanda Canaud on September 12.
The fourth edition of Shopping D nas Arábias brings food and services to refugee people.
From 2016 to August 2019, 181 diploma revalidation processes were filed by refugees in Brazil through a partnership between UNHCR and non-profit Compassiva. Most of them still wait for analysis.

