Born in Rio de Janeiro, professor Muna Omran is a daughter of an Arab Muslim family. The co-founder of a study group on the Middle East, she has taken on the mission of breaking stereotypes on the Arab countries, Islam, and Arab and Muslim women in Brazil.
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The next course to be made available by the Revista Diáspora magazine and by Rio de Janeiro school Integra Educação Avançada begins February 22. Enrolments are open.
This Monday (1st), Muslim and non-Muslim women are posting pictures of them wearing the veil on social media to support hijab wearers. This is the World Hijab Day, which is promoted in Brazil by a group of the University of São Paulo.
Integra Educação Avançada and Revista Diáspora joined efforts for increasing the dissemination of the scientific work on the MENA region trough courses, webinars, exhibitions and debates.
Based in São Paulo, Ana Laura Deleon is Uruguayan and launched in August her website Estudios Arabes e Islamicos. She aims at taking information on the Arab countries to Spanish speakers.
Muslim shopping behavior was discussed by the president of the Arab Brazilian Chamber of Commerce during a course offered by Fambras and CNA. Orlando Leite Ribeiro, of Brazil’s Ministry of Agriculture, spoke on exports to Islamic markets.
The pilgrimage to Mecca is restricted to Saudi residents this year. Pilgrims are getting tested for Covid-19 and getting their temperatures taken. They will be required to undergo a quarantine at the end of their journey.
An unprecedented study commissioned by the Arab Brazilian Chamber of Commerce found that the Arab community in Brazil numbers at 11.61 million, 45% of whom are in the A and B income brackets.
Science and religion will be among the subjects of an online megaevent of the Federal University of São Paulo (Unifesp) from Monday (13) until Friday (17), on which date there will be a debate with representatives from Islamism, Catholicism, Judaism, and Candomblé.
The Saudi Arabian government is accepting registration from non-national residents to join the religious pilgrimage due late July. Saudi medical professionals and security workers who have recovered will be selected to join the Hajj.
Saudi government will allow mosques to reopen for the weekly Friday prayers, as well as other prayers, starting on May 31, but with several rules, such as a two-meter distancing between people and the use of their own prayer mats brought from home.
In Brazil and the world over, the month of fasting in the Islamic calendar will be different this year. From April 23 to May 23, prayers and meals will happen indoors. Check out the schedule for Brazil.
A dinner event Wednesday evening in São Paulo was also attended by diplomats from Arab countries.
Number of Muslim followers on the large annual pilgrimage to Mecca, Saudi Arabia, grew by 5% from 2018.
