The incorporation of objects from the Lebanese-origin family allowed the museum to broaden its narratives. Ranging from everyday items to furniture, now kept in technical storage, the Jafet collection reveals the lifestyle of immigrants in the 20th century.
Browsing: memory
Agreement sets that the university team will digitize and research documents for a project on the memory of Arab immigration in Brazil. A seminar discusses new perspectives on the Arab diaspora.
Henrique Tabchoury converted 22 78-rpm records featuring Arabic music into digital format. Most were recorded in Arab countries, but some originate from Brazil.
Three Brazilian ministries have come together to recreate a committee focused on a UNESCO program aimed at documenting the collective memory of humanity and providing access to this heritage.
Event in the Arab-Brazilian Chamber of Commerce on Thursday (18) discussed the relevance of digitizing rare documents and the process to access a collection on the immigration.
Director at Latin American Studies and Cultures Center (LASCC) at the Holy Spirit University of Kaslik (USEK), Roberto Khatlab, has been in São Paulo to talk with partners of the Digitization Project of the Memory of Syrian and Lebanese Immigration in Brazil.
Georges Hobeika, from the Holy Spirit University of Kaslik, spoke at the Arab Chamber to launch a program of digitization of documents from the Syrian-Lebanese immigration. ‘It would be a crime to allow this memory to fade away,’ he said.
