{"id":213296,"date":"2019-05-02T17:21:04","date_gmt":"2019-05-02T20:21:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/?p=213296"},"modified":"2019-06-30T18:36:00","modified_gmt":"2019-06-30T21:36:00","slug":"sharjah-dates-festival-celebrates-arrival-of-ramadan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/sharjah-dates-festival-celebrates-arrival-of-ramadan\/","title":{"rendered":"Sharjah Dates Festival celebrates arrival of Ramadan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>S\u00e3o Paulo \u2013 The ambassador of Brazil in Abu Dhabi, Fernando Igreja, attended the opening ceremony of the Sharjah Dates Festival this Wednesday (1) in the UAE. The head of the\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.ccab.org.br\/en\/home\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong>Arab Brazilian Chamber of Commerce<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0office in Dubai, Rafael Solimeo, was also in attendance.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_213282\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-213282\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/sharjahdatefestival.png\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-213282 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/sharjahdatefestival-300x246.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"246\" srcset=\"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/sharjahdatefestival-300x246.png 300w, https:\/\/anba.com.br\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/sharjahdatefestival.png 595w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-213282\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">From left to right: Owais, Igreja and Solimeo look on as chefs work at event<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The festival was kicked off by the chairman of the\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.sharjah.gov.ae\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Sharjah Chamber of Commerce &amp; Industry<\/a>, Abdallah Sultan Al Owais, and will continue until Saturday (4), the eve of Ramadan \u2013 the Muslim calendar month during which followers go on a fast from sunup to sundown. One of the purposes of the festival is to celebrate the arrival of this religious month, which will last from May 5 to June 4 this year.<\/p>\n<p>Dates are a must for iftar, the nightly feast during which Muslims break their fast during Ramadan. Growers, distributors and wholesalers offer different varieties of the fruit and its products directly to end buyers or major retailers. According to the Festival\u2019s organizers, special promotions will be available.<\/p>\n<p>The event also features contests, workshops for the public and chefs cooking date-based dishes.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Congress<\/strong><\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_213284\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-213284\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/sharjadatefestival4.jpeg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-213284 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/sharjadatefestival4-300x225.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/sharjadatefestival4-300x225.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/anba.com.br\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/sharjadatefestival4-768x576.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/anba.com.br\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/sharjadatefestival4-1024x768.jpeg 1024w, https:\/\/anba.com.br\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/sharjadatefestival4.jpeg 1280w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-213284\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Igreja and Owais discussed the World Chambers Congress<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>In addition to attending the festival opening, the Brazilian ambassador met with Owais to discuss Sharjah\u2019s participation in the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/world-congress-to-gather-chambers-of-commerce-in-rio\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">11<sup>th<\/sup> World Chambers Congress<\/a>\u00a0from June 12 to 14 in Rio de Janeiro.<\/p>\n<p>The Embassy has informed that the UAE will be represented in the Congress by the Dubai and Sharjah chambers of commerce.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Quick facts <\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Sharjah Dates Festival<br \/>\nMay 1-4, 2pm-10pm<br \/>\nExpo Centre Sharjah, Hall 1<br \/>\nTickets: AED 5.00<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.sharjahdatesfestival.ae\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Find out more<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Translated by Gabriel Pomerancblum<\/strong><\/p>\n<div class=\"credits-overlay\" data-target=\".wp-image-213280\">Press Release<\/div>\n<div class=\"credits-overlay\" data-target=\".wp-image-213282\">Reproduction\/Instagram<\/div>\n<div class=\"credits-overlay\" data-target=\".wp-image-213284\">Press Release<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The event\u2019s opening this Wednesday (1) was attended by the ambassador of Brazil to the UAE, Fernando Igreja, and the head of the Arab Brazilian Chamber of Commerce\u2019s Dubai office.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2316,"featured_media":213280,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[107],"tags":[439,268,1771,28259,5646,2491,2741,1852,8463,8465,8464],"class_list":{"0":"post-213296","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-business-opportunities","8":"tag-arab-chamber","9":"tag-camara-arabe","10":"tag-dates","11":"tag-fernando-igreja-en-2","12":"tag-fernando-igreja","13":"tag-rafael-solimeo","14":"tag-ramadan","15":"tag-sharjah","16":"tag-sharjah-chamber-of-commerce-industry","17":"tag-sharjah-dates-festival","18":"tag-world-chambers-congress"},"wps_subtitle":"The event\u2019s opening this Wednesday (1) was attended by the ambassador of Brazil to the UAE, Fernando Igreja, and the head of the Arab Brazilian Chamber of Commerce\u2019s Dubai office.","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/213296","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\/2316"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=213296"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/213296\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/213280"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=213296"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=213296"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=213296"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}