The 3rd edition of the Cultural Asytlums Fair at SESC Vila Mariana will run on December 14 and 15 and feature Syrian makeup, henna and Arab dance and other activities with refugees in Brazil.
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Fund stressed the huge number of Syrian refugees hosted in the country. However, GDP undergoes a period of weak growth.
Movies from Palestine, Egypt, Qatar, Morocco, Lebanon, Syria, Tunisia and Algeria are part of the International Film Festival to run from October 17 to 30. Palestinian director Elia Suleiman will be awarded.
Temporary visas can be requested in Brazil’s consular offices Brazil in Beirut, Lebanon; Aman, Jordan; Cairo, Egypt, as well as in Turkish cities.
The Arab country needs 100,000 tonnes of soft wheat. It’s accepting offers from parties looking to swap for the hard variety of the grain.
ANBA reporter describes his brief tour to some of the main tourist attractions of Lebanon’s capital city.
Movie about director Otavio Cury’s great-grandfather will be screened at the Chamber’s auditorium on October 2nd at 7 pm. Admission is free.
Marcela Jacques from Recife and Renata Isa from Curitiba live in the Arab country with their husbands and children and were taken aback by the war started in 2011.
The last story of ANBA series on the country talks about Latakia on the Mediterranean coast. A tourism region, it suffered with the crisis and the loss of many of its sons, soldiers that died in combat in other cities.
Crac des Chevalier, a Crusader castle in Syria, was occupied for two years by armed groups and damaged during the fights. On top of a mountain, the monument oversees the Valley of Christians and is the theme of ANBA’s fourth story on the country.
In its third special report on Syria, ANBA recounts a visit to the city that was full of armed groups during the war that broke out in 2011, and to one of the country’s main archaeological sites – damaged, but still impressive.
In the town of Maaloula, which has been a Christian pilgrimage site for centuries, some of the landmarks have been damaged. One of a few places in the world where Aramaic is still spoken, the village is the subject of the second story in an ANBA series on the Arab country.
Over the course of a week, ANBA visited war-torn cities, historical and religious sites across the country. Damascus is the subject of the first in a series of articles starting this Tuesday.
From coffee with cardamom to dates, Alaa Kaseem and Luciana Tucci mix Arab taste and culture into a gelato brand that was born in São Paulo.

