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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Amid the pandemic, the International Monetary Fund expects the Middle East and North Africa to attain an economic growth, revising its previous forecast of 2.2%.
Amid the pandemic, chef Fred Caffarena and his partner started a business focused on hummus. The Middle Eastern dip is made with techniques from Yemen, Lebanon and Syria.
‘Middle East: Foreign Policy of Regional Powers’ will include five classes from January 26 to 30 with professor José Antonio Lima. Enrolment is open.
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.
Abrafrutas executive director believes countries such as Saudi Arabia, Bahrain and UAE will consume more Brazilian fruits next year.
World Health Organization (WHO) regional director Ahmed Al-Mandhari said coronavirus infection numbers are going up in the Middle East, particularly in Iran, Jordan and Morocco.
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.
Brazil supplies grains to and imports fertilizer from the Middle East. This ensures smooth logistics when it comes to bulk shipping. Container shipping is a different beast, and problems arose as soon as the pandemic broke out.
According to forecast made public by an IMF official on Tuesday (30), the region’s GDP will contract more than it had been projected in April, due to the coronavirus impacts on the economy activity and the low prices of hydrocarbons.
Importers are shifting towards Brazilian beef as an alternative to unavailable Indian buffalo meat. The subject was discussed in a webinar hosted by consulting firm Datagro and livestock industry association GPB.
The increase in sales to the Middle East, particularly to Arabs, is a ‘pleasant surprise’ for the Brazil’s largest coffee farmers cooperative.
MENA accounted for 20% of total portfolio flows to emerging financial markets from 2016-2018.
Alessandro Stein Gonçalves has manufactured music instruments for 25 years. ‘The derbake made here has to sound exactly like the one made in the Middle East,’ he says.
