Activity slowed down compared with July, the Brazilian Central Bank reported this Friday.
Emirates airline and English Studies Dubai will be at São Paulo’s Work & Study Abroad Fair this Saturday (14). The event will also feature a workshop about courses in the Dubai school.
Egypt’s Commercial Office in São Paulo launched its third showroom in the capital of the state of Rondônia, Brazil.
Charges in the emirate are competitive in the lead-up to Expo 2020, in a bid to address increased room availability.
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.
Crac des Chevalier, a Crusader castle in Syria, was occupied for two years by armed groups and damaged during the fights. On top of a mountain, the monument oversees the Valley of Christians and is the theme of ANBA’s fourth story on the country.
The new Brazil-Lebanon Virtual Cultural Library project, comprising digitized works, is slated for release in November.
The organization’s secretary-general Tamer Mansour will be a speaker at the food security-themed event due November 12 and 13. Member companies get 50% off.
In its third special report on Syria, ANBA recounts a visit to the city that was full of armed groups during the war that broke out in 2011, and to one of the country’s main archaeological sites – damaged, but still impressive.
The officials discussed preparations for president Jair Bolsonaro’s upcoming trip to the United Arab Emirates.
Brazil’s minister of Agriculture, Tereza Cristina, starts her trip to four Arab countries this Wednesday (11). She will have appointments in Egypt, then Saudi Arabia, Kuwait and the UAE. The Arab Brazilian Chamber will participate.
The Commercial Office of the Embassy of Egypt in Brazil has a stand at Gotex, taking place through Thursday (12) at Expo Center Norte. Egyptian brands are expected to reach USD 20 million in deals between them.
In the town of Maaloula, which has been a Christian pilgrimage site for centuries, some of the landmarks have been damaged. One of a few places in the world where Aramaic is still spoken, the village is the subject of the second story in an ANBA series on the Arab country.
The first eight months of the year saw 1.14 million bags shipped from Brazil to the Arab bloc. Overall, exports saw the largest volume for the period in the last five years.

