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The first Arab immigrant in Brazil and the first Arabic newspaper in Latin America are some of the findings of the Project of Digitization of the Memory of the Arab Immigration to Brazil. Open for consultation since last year, the archive has 120,000 digitized pieces and has been used by researchers.

Writer and researcher Roberto Khatlab (pictured below) pens an article on the newspapers, magazines, and books produced by the first Arab immigrants in Brazil. The works followed the trends of the Arab Renaissance and were digitized in a project by the Lebanese university USEK and the Arab Brazilian Chamber.

The Library of Lebanese university USEK has established cooperation with the Moise Khayrallah Center in the United States. Through it, a digital collection of journals and newspapers published by Arab immigrants in Latin America will be processed with OCR technology, facilitating research.

In an event hosted by the Arab Brazilian Chamber at Expo 2020 Dubai this Sunday (27), Arab and Brazilian authorities spoke about the migratory ties uniting the regions. Arabs were able to get to know a new face of Brazil, in addition to the commercial one.