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To celebrate the Arab Community Day in Brazil, ANBA interviewed two influential political personalities in the current government. The minister of Planning, Simone Tebet, and the federal deputy for Rio de Janeiro, Jandira Feghali.

By Rubens Hannun For the longest time, the amount of Arabs and Arab descendants living in Brazil had been unknown, and there was talk of numbers that would vary by the millions. Six, seven, ten, twelve, fifteen million. Discrepancies were that great. But as fate would have it, during the fourteen days spanning from July