Dubai Film and TV Commission has launched this Sunday (22nd) a new streamlined system to facilitate the issuing of filming permits. The goal is to boost film production in the city.
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The Brazil-Lebanon Cultural Centre is screening productions every Wednesday up until July 9th, including Heleno, Zico na Rede and Romeo and Juliet Get Married.
Exhibition ‘Tolerance, Understanding and Coexistence’ will be held between June 25th to 27th, at Club Homs, with pictures and a film on the religious life in the country. Modern life in the Arab nation will also be shown.
Group El Dey is performing this Tuesday at 7:00 pm in Belo Horizonte, in the Conexão BH festival. On the same day, the Algerian national team is playing a World Cup match in the city.
Palestinian singer Mohammed Assaf came to Brazil to sing at Fifa Congress. He won the Middle Eastern version of reality show “American Idol” last year.
Program covers various science fields, including oil, gas and charcoal. A PhD or an equivalent title is required. Enrolment is open until September 15th.
Ibirapuera park goers stopped to see the opening of the Saudi Culture Days festival. Young people clad in sportswear, on rollerblades and roller-skate mingled to men and women dressed in typical clothes from the Gulf country.
Event will feature dancing, music, costumes, painting and photographs from the Arab country, plus a film about Brazilian expatriates. Performances will take place at the Ibirapuera Park and Butantã mall.
Brazil’s Claudio Kairouz and Tunisia’s Raouf Jemni have played the typical Arab instrument qanoun together for two years now. They will play in the Arab country in June and July and in Brazil in August and September.
The event will take place from June 5th to 9th at Ibirapuera Park. Attractions will include dancing, a handicraft exhibit, folklore presentations, film screenings and henna painting. Admittance is free.
Nearly 800 years of Arab occupation in Spanish territory have left marks on the country’s vocabulary, culture, dancing and architecture. The event will take place on the 30th at São Paulo’s Cervantes Institute.
The Pan-Amazonian Book Fair, due from May 30th to June 8th in Belém, will feature lectures, films, seminars, music and other attractions highlighting the Arab world. Qatar will have its own tent.
The show ‘Longing for My Amazon’ opens on the 29th at the Brazil-Lebanon Cultural Centre, featuring 30 pictures taken by Lebanese photographer Jaques Menassa while living in Brazil.
The Arab Chamber and the Institute of Arab Culture will award the short films which best narrate the history of the São Paulo street which received immigrants. Grand prize will be US$ 6,780.
