A contest promoted by the UNHCR will award the best Brazilian scientific works on refugees. Currently, approximately 4,500 people in these conditions live in the country, of which 10% are Arabs.
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Project of the Brazil-Lebanon Cultural Centre introduces Brazilian history and culture to children and adolescents at Lebanese teaching institutions. Over 300 students have participated.
Ancient History professor conducts studies with mortuary masks made from mummies at the time when Egypt was taken over by the Roman Empire.
Written by the Brazilian Daniel Ortiz, soap-opera ‘Between Love and Past’ is successful in the Arab world. Broadcast by MBC, the soap attracts prime-time audience.
Six innovative initiatives should be contemplated with US$ 20,000 each at an event in Doha, in November. Enrolment is open to compete for the award, granted by a foundation in the country.
Luiza Mahin, a black leader of the Malê revolution, was the theme of a creative writing competition between schools of São Paulo and Rio. The Malês were African slaves from countries like Sudan.
The 7th Arab World Film Festival will bring 31 films selected by New York’s MoMa to Brazil. The internationally curated event will feature films from several different Arab countries.
The Notre Dame University, in Zouk Mosbeh, will screen Brazilian movies in its weekly sessions. The first of them, to be shown on Monday (23rd), is ‘Central do Brasil.’
The Syrian Arab Cultural Centre will promote the exhibition ‘The Gleam of Arab Art in Brazil,’ by artist Garcia Saad Calado. The event will start on April 26th and admittance will be free.
A book brings images of bandits pictured by a Lebanese photographer. This is among the most complete records of the crimes and showdowns in northeastern Brazil in the early twentieth century.
‘The factory,’ by director and scriptwriter Aly Muritiba, won second place at the Gulf Film Festival, which ended last Monday (16th) in the Emirates.
A theatre play for children at the Sesc Santo Amaro uses the narrative of the Arabian Nights to cover themes like personality, individuality, consumerism and vanity.
Jacques Menassa lived in Brazil for ten years and took several photographic trips to the Amazon. His work will be shown this month in an exhibition at Lebanese university Usek.
Alagoas’ most famous Arab descendent, painter Pierre Chalita passed away in 2010, leaving a legacy that is reference in the state’s arts to date. His widow runs a foundation that goes by his name.
