{"id":210737,"date":"2019-03-14T07:00:54","date_gmt":"2019-03-14T09:00:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/?p=210737"},"modified":"2019-03-15T21:52:15","modified_gmt":"2019-03-15T23:52:15","slug":"rio-beirut-project-to-link-up-sister-cities-initiatives","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/rio-beirut-project-to-link-up-sister-cities-initiatives\/","title":{"rendered":"Rio-Beirut project to link up sister cities\u2019 initiatives"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>S\u00e3o Paulo \u2013 In a bid to connect the cities of Beirut, Lebanon and Rio de Janeiro, Brazil (pictured), the Consulate General of Lebanon in Rio de Janeiro will launch the project\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/riodejaneiro.mfa.gov.lb\/riodejaneiro\/portuguese\/home\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Consulate General of Lebanon in Rio de Janeiro<\/a> will launch the project\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/riobeirute.com.br\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em>Rio-Beirute:<\/em> <em>Caminhos Para Duas Cidades<\/em><\/a>\u00a0(Rio-Beirut: Pathways for Two Cities). next April. The goal is to encourage agreements involving initiatives from both cities, in fields including culture, economy and urban planning. Since 2009, Rio and Beirut have been declared sister cities by a municipal law in the former city.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_210707\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-210707\" style=\"width: 165px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/claudine-11-vv.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-210707\" src=\"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/claudine-11-vv-200x300.jpg\" alt=\"O lan\u00e7amento acontecer\u00e1 na Assembleia Legislativa do Rio de Janeiro\" width=\"165\" height=\"248\" srcset=\"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/claudine-11-vv-200x300.jpg 200w, https:\/\/anba.com.br\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/claudine-11-vv-768x1152.jpg 768w, https:\/\/anba.com.br\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/claudine-11-vv-682x1024.jpg 682w, https:\/\/anba.com.br\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/claudine-11-vv.jpg 853w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 165px) 100vw, 165px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-210707\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Claudine Aoun Roukoz to attend launch of Rio-Beirute project<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Lebanon\u2019s consulate general to Rio, Alejandro Bitar, said the Project will encourage and facilitate contacts between Brazilian and Lebanese institutions. \u201cThis is a long-term project with no end date. We wish to enhance the ties between our countries,\u201d said Bitar. <em>Rio-Beirute<\/em> will rely on a consulate team to pick projects linking up urban elements of Rio and Beirut. One of the first initiatives being looked into concerns the establishment of a protocol of cooperation between the Beirut International Marathon and the Rio Marathon. Cooperation could include the exchange of professionals, workshops and other actions.<\/p>\n<p>The project will be launched on April 10 at the Rio de Janeiro Pal\u00e1cio da Cidade. In attendance will be Claudine Aoun Roukoz, chair of the Supreme Council of Arab Women Organization, president of the National Commission for Lebanese and special advisor to the president of Lebanon. Roukoz is the daughter of president Michel Aoun. \u201cIt will be a meeting to discuss aspects of the project, and how women participate in the Arab world and Lebanon,\u201d the consul said.<\/p>\n<p>According to the Consulate, actions covered by the project could involve anything from graffiti to spoken poetry meetings known as \u2018slams,\u2019 or ones relating to economics and tourism. Anyone looking to promote their work, including projects or startup companies, can send an email to riobeirute@gmail.com to get their proposals looked into by the Consulate General\u2019s Commssion.<\/p>\n<p>As a <em>Rio-Beirute<\/em> pre-launch event, April 8 will see Claudine Roukoz deliver a lecture followed by a discussion on The Condition of Women in the Arab World. On the 9<sup>th<\/sup> there will be a showing of the movie <em>Nour<\/em>, by Khalil Dreyfus Zaarour.<\/p>\n<p>The Consulate is also working on actions for coming months, including Expo Food L\u00edbano, an industry show set to take place in Rio.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Quick Facts <\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Project launch \u2013 <em>Rio Beirute: Caminhos para duas cidades<br \/>\n<\/em>April 10, 7pm<br \/>\nPal\u00e1cio da Cidade<br \/>\nRua S\u00e3o Clemente, 360 &#8211; Rio de Janeiro, Brazil<br \/>\nFind out more: www.riobeirute.com.br or riobeirute@gmail.com<\/p>\n<p><strong>Translated by Gabriel Pomerancblum<\/strong><\/p>\n<div class=\"credits-overlay\" data-target=\".wp-image-210711\">Luciola Vilella \u2013 MTUR<\/div>\n<div class=\"credits-overlay\" data-target=\".wp-image-210707\">Divulga\u00e7\u00e3o<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Consulate General of Lebanon in Rio de Janeiro will launch the project \u2018Rio-Beirute: Caminhos Para Duas Cidades\u2019 next April, to foster agreements in several fields.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2324,"featured_media":210711,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[114,3066],"tags":[339,1996,232,26764,7755,7757],"class_list":{"0":"post-210737","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news","8":"category-society","9":"tag-lebanon","10":"tag-beirut","11":"tag-brazil","12":"tag-projeto-en","13":"tag-rio-beirute","14":"tag-sister-cities"},"wps_subtitle":"The Consulate General of Lebanon in Rio de Janeiro will launch the project \u2018Rio-Beirute: Caminhos Para Duas Cidades\u2019 next April, to foster agreements in several fields.","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/210737","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2324"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=210737"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/210737\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/210711"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=210737"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=210737"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=210737"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}