Diplomat Alesandro Candeas presented his credentials to the president of Palestine, Mahmoud Abbas, earlier this week.
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Public library in the city of Beitunia created a Brazilian section after receiving 200 books earlier this week. Other two cities with Brazilian communities will soon receive donations.
The country’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs issued a note on Friday (21) evening expressing hope with the ceasefire between Israel and Palestine. Brazilian Chancellor Carlos França met with Arab diplomats.
In a press release, the institutional development center for the relations between Arabs and Brazilians calls for efforts from the international community to end the hostilities in the region, where Palestinians and Israelis fight, and says that stability will only be achieved when the rights of the Palestinian people are recognized.
Registration is open and free of charge. The meetings will start this Friday (21) and will go until June 5, totaling seven classes.
Centro Cultural Banco do Brasil is hosting online the 2nd Arab Women’s Film Festival to run until June 27. All movies are directed by Arab women, and 27 are premières in Brazil.
A series of demonstrations were held in Brazil in solidarity with the moment that Palestine is going through and to commemorate Nakba, which took place 73 years ago.
Brazil’s Representative Office in Ramallah is accepting entries for a Portuguese contest for children and teens who live in Palestine.
Diplomat Alessandro Candeas took office as the Brazilian representative in Ramallah late last year and has worked to further Brazil-Palestine relations across multiple domains, including trade and cooperation in education.
The brainchild of a Brazilian, online project Migra will feature translation into Portuguese. In addition to debates, the project will include readings, academic forums, meetings with students, and book launches.
The Brazilian representative in Palestine, Alessandro Candeas, met with the country’s minister of Foreign Affairs and Expatriates, Riyad al-Maliki.
Online event brings movies by Palestine’s Annemarie Jacir and UAE’s Nujoom Al-Ghanem to the Brazilian audience. They will also have their poems recited in performances during a sarau. The event starts on April 7.
Translators such as Michel Sleiman and Safa Jubran will join author Milton Hatoum to discuss the life and work of poet Mahmud Darwich. The Palestinian would turn 80 this month and Editora Tabla is hosting meetings in his honor.
In wrapping up the Economic Forum Brazil & Arab Countries, Palestine minister of Economy Khaled al-Osaily called upon enterprises to seek out opportunities in technical cooperation and to take advantage of available incentives to venture into Arab and Islamic markets.
