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Founded by Lebanese immigrant Mohamad Abdul Latif Assaf, Alhambra was born in the ’80s in Santos, Brazil, starting with a furniture store on Avenida Senador Feijó. Now in the hands of the founder’s children, the company grew by embracing Brazilian design and plans to open its fifth store.

Brazil is becoming an increasingly important supplier in the Arab beauty market, particularly with hair care products. The region is supplied by companies such as Floractive, specializing in hair treatments, and Terra Fértil, offering hair straighteners and dryers. Light Hair aims to enter the market, too.

The Brazilian Ministry of Foreign Affairs issued a statement on Thursday (29) welcoming the renewal of the U.N. Interim Force in Lebanon (UNIFIL) mandate. Brazil has previously led the UNIFIL Maritime Task Force and currently has some military personnel operating in the country.

Given the economic crisis Lebanon has been faced with, representatives from the Children’s Cancer Center of Lebanon are seeking donations in Brazil to keep providing free attendance to children. Its hospitals have a high treatment success rate. Arab-Brazilian Chamber is engaging in the campaign.

Artworks by Lebanese young artists about the Tripoli Fair, a project designed by Brazilian architect Oscar Niemeyer, will be on view at the Guimarães Rosa Institute in Lebanese capital Beirut starting Thursday (11).

Her first book, Near to the Wild Heart, was translated from Portuguese into Arabic by Safa Jubran. Lispector is one of the greatest names of Brazil’s 20th-century literature. Official launch took place in the Guimarães Rosa Institute in Beirut.

Solar energy system acquired with donations from Rotary Club members in Brazil was inaugurated in a Lebanese school earlier this month. Other two education institutions in the Arab country that faces constant energy supply problems will be benefited from funds raised by the Light for the Future campaign.

São Paulo – Founder of the Brazil Friendship Group in the Middle East, Brazilian-born Livia Jasmin Tawil launched on Monday (27) in Beirut, Lebanon, her first book. Something between a novel, personal accounts, and the story of the Brazil Friendship Group, Proximidades – Destinos entrelaçados de brasileiras no Líbano [Proximities – Intertwined paths of Brazilian