The occupied territories in Palestine and the resistance and criticism against the exploitation of labor are some of the core elements of artworks by Arab artists displayed in the Pavilion at Ibirapuera Park.
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Assistant manager of CineSesc, Yunes was one of the founders of the Arab World Film Festival. She is a Lebanese Brazilian and talks about what it was like growing up in that culture.
Of Syrian Lebanese origin, Maha Mamo and her sister were the first stateless persons to have recognized Brazilian nationality. Now, she tells her story to broaden the discussion on the topic and will have a text launched in a project by Sao Paulo’s Museum of Immigration.
The Lebanese-descendant writer launched earlier this year her new novel “Elas marchavam sob o sol” [They marched under the sun]. The writer was a finalist of the Jabuti Award 2018 and won São Paulo Prize for Literature with her previous novel.
Born in a small village in Lebanon, Jihan Zoghbi moved to Brazil where she obtained her doctoral degree in Computer Science from USP. She chairs the Brazilian Healthcare CIOs Association, which spreads information on the fight against COVID-19.
