Grupo Coimbra, with 77 institutions in Brazil, is signing cooperation agreements with five universities from the Arab country. The partnership includes research and innovation projects and academic exchange programs.
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The photo exhibit ‘Lebanon: World Heritage’ will run from this Thursday (1) through October in a number of locations throughout the city. An opening ceremony will take place on the 19th at city theater.
Entitled ‘Viewpoints on Asylum,’ the event will be held in Curitiba, Porto Alegre, Rio de Janeiro, Brasília and São Paulo starting June 1.
Wessam Soliman wrote the scripts for three movies directed by her now-deceased husband Mohamed Khan. She will attend the opening of a special showing of the director’s films next June.
Students from AESC Objetivo middle and high schools in Valinhos, 92 km from São Paulo, wrote letters that will be delivered to refugee camps in Lebanon and Jordan.
Brazil’s CI Intercâmbio e Viagem has added the United Arab Emirates to its portfolio of destinations for people wishing to study English abroad.
The Edward Said Chair will sponsor the event ‘Time in waiting: exile in Palestinian cinema’ on May 29th in São Paulo. Professor Geraldo Campos will discuss the issue of returning to the homeland and art production in the Arab country.
Thiago Lorenzetti, from Criciúma, 199 km from Florianópolis, travelled to the Arab country to teach his craft to Syrian refugees. He’s part of a group of Brazilians that volunteer to offer help to immigrants.
To mark the most important day of the year for the Brazilian Navy, the Brazil-Lebanon Cultural Center will host a haiku poem competition themed ‘Sailing.’ Registrations are open until June 12 and the winner will get an iPad.
Featuring pictures by award-winning photographer Mauricio Lima, ‘Farida, a Syrian tale’ depicts refugees in flight across Europe. The showing will remain open at the Museum of Image and South until the 28th.
Next Sunday will be ‘Lebanese-Brazilian Day,’ featuring handicraft, cuisine, painting, dancing and music from both countries. Lebanon’s minister of Foreign Affairs and Expatriates Gebran Bassil will attend.
Each of the graduate courses offered by the São Paulo university will have one seat available for a refugee. Applicants are required to take the National High School Exam (Enem).
An institute that works with refugees is organizing an event this Saturday and Sunday in the bohemian district of the city of São Paulo. There will be typical foods, sale of goods and art presentations.
Dissimilarities between film portrayals of the Egyptian female figure and the real lives of women in the time of the pharaohs will be addressed in ‘Women and everyday life in Ancient Egypt,’ on April 24th.
