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.
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Henrique Tabchoury converted 22 78-rpm records featuring Arabic music into digital format. Most were recorded in Arab countries, but some originate from Brazil.
The Holy Spirit University of Kaslik (Usek) opened the exhibition “The Lebanese Journey in Latin America–From Then to Now” and hosted the conference “Diplomacy Across the Oceans: 80 Years of Lebanon-Latin America” last week at its Kaslik campus library. With pieces from the exhibition visible in the background of the photo, researcher, writer, and director
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.
The Library of Lebanese university USEK has established cooperation with the Moise Khayrallah Center in the United States. Through it, a digital collection of journals and newspapers published by Arab immigrants in Latin America will be processed with OCR technology, facilitating research.
The Digitization Project of the Memory of Arab Immigration in Brazil has completed its first phase and makes available 100,000 digitized pieces. They include pictures and content written by Arab immigrants in their early years in Brazil. The link will be launched officially in an event on Saturday (26) at the Immigration Museum.
Enrolment is available for USEK’s executive program “Business Strategies and Performance.” Classes will be taught from March to May 2021.
The Holy Spirit University of Kaslik (USEK) is receiving applications for the remote summer school to run from July 3 to 31. The education institutes are adapting to the new reality amid the pandemic.
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.
The organization’s Cultural director Silvia Antibas will go over a project for digitization of immigration history being rolled out in partnership with a university in Lebanon.
