Researcher Nagib Nassar has lived in Brazil and helped solve the disease of the mosaic virus that attacked cassava in African countries and conducted improvements on the tuber to increase its size and the protein content of its flour.
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Brazil’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs is selecting entrants to teach Brazilian Portuguese in 19 countries, including Lebanon. Twenty slots are available.
The Egyptian professor passed away last Sunday in Cairo at age 97. He moved to Brazil in 1962 and didn’t move away until 2015. He served a decades-long stint in the Arab Chamber board. His crowning achievement was the Koran’s translation into Portuguese.
Lessons will be taught next September in São Paulo, Brazil, on ‘Lebanon and Jordan: The Age of Trade-Based Civilizations’ and West x East: The History of Opposites.’ Enrolments are open.
