Browsing: Líbano

Pope Leo XIV will visit Turkey from November 27 to 30 and Lebanon from November 30 to December 2. This will be his first international trip since being elected pope in May of this year. Images of the Catholic Church leader are already displayed on the streets of Beirut, the Lebanese capital. ©Anwar Amro/AFP

Born in Syria and of Palestinian and Lebanese descent, Alaa Kaseem decided to move to Brazil about ten years ago and found in the country the support and conditions he needed to start a business. Knowledgeable about Arab ice creams and their flavors, he and his wife opened the ice cream shop Al Kaseem Gelato in São Paulo.

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.

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.

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