{"id":216566,"date":"2019-06-27T07:00:14","date_gmt":"2019-06-27T10:00:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/?p=216566"},"modified":"2019-06-30T16:30:18","modified_gmt":"2019-06-30T19:30:18","slug":"brazilians-join-cultural-exchange-program-in-lebanon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/brazilians-join-cultural-exchange-program-in-lebanon\/","title":{"rendered":"Brazilians join cultural exchange program in Lebanon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>S\u00e3o Paulo \u2013 The Latin American Studies and Cultures Center Centro (LASCC) at Lebanon\u2019s Holy Spirit University of Kaslik (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.usek.edu.lb\/en\/home\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">USEK<\/a>) will welcome a group of five students and professors from two schools in Minas Gerais, Brazil for a cultural exchange program during this year\u2019s mid-year vacations. The group hails from a law school (<em>Escola Superior de Direito Dom Helder C\u00e2mara &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/domhelder.edu.br\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">ESDHC<\/a><\/em>) and an engineering school (<em>Escola de Engenharia de Minas Gerais<\/em> &#8211;\u00a0<em><a href=\"http:\/\/emge.edu.br\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">EMGE<\/a><\/em>). They will leave for Lebanon on Thursday (27), and the immersion program \u2013 including lessons in Arabic, Lebanese culture and customs, visits to landmark and archaeological sites and more \u2013 will last from June 30 to July 13.<\/p>\n<p>The agreement for the program was entered into in the first quarter, during a trip to Minas Gerais by the Brazilian-born LASCC director <a href=\"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/lecture-on-lebanon-starts-year-in-brazilian-schools\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Roberto Khatlab<\/a>. This will be the first-ever program offered via the ESDHC and EMGE\u2019s joint simulation and exchange center (<em>Centro de Simula\u00e7\u00e3o e Interc\u00e2mbio<\/em> &#8211; <em>CSI<\/em>). The EMGE and ESDHC are sister Jesuit network schools, and even share one facility.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_216531\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-216531\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/Aline_foto2.jpg\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-216531 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/Aline_foto2-300x246.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"246\" srcset=\"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/Aline_foto2-300x246.jpg 300w, https:\/\/anba.com.br\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/Aline_foto2-768x630.jpg 768w, https:\/\/anba.com.br\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/Aline_foto2-1024x840.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-216531\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Aline Oliveira: a personal and pedagogical experience<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>EMGE professors Aline Oliveira \u2013 who teaches Civil Engineering \u2013 and Gilmar Rosa will be the group\u2019s leaders. \u201cBesides the personal experience of learning a new language and having a completely new experience in a country where people have different customs, we\u2019ll also see the university, watch and learn new teaching methodologies and pedagogy, which we will bring to our own university,\u201d Oliveira told ANBA.<\/p>\n<p>The group will stay in the USEK\u2019s accommodations in Kaslik (<em>pictured at the beginning of this story<\/em>), a city in the Keserwan district of the Mount Lebanon province, 17.5 km north of Beirut. \u201cExpectations are very high. Getting in touch with a new culture, diversity and new ways of life will help build empathy and relationship skills at the personal level. Professionally speaking, we will learn new approaches in terms of teaching, methodologies and forms of learning, as well as learn a new language, which is always very important,\u201d said Oliveira.<\/p>\n<p>According to the professor, students from Lebanon, Italy and Jordan will join the program. She believes cultural exchange and networking among students will be another positive aspect of the experience.<\/p>\n<p>Roberto Khatlab said student mobility through agreements enrichens and unlocks knowledge of the other in a more coherent way. \u201cIn a bid to further cement this academic bridge connecting Lebanon and Latin America, we are striving to present Lebanon, its history, its values, working with professors and students alike, enabling academic and science exchange at the teaching and research levels,\u201d he asserted.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Translated by Gabriel Pomerancblum<\/strong><\/p>\n<div class=\"credits-overlay\" data-target=\".wp-image-216564\">Jean Isenmann\/Only World\/Only France\/AFP<\/div>\n<div class=\"credits-overlay\" data-target=\".wp-image-216531\">Divulga\u00e7\u00e3o<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A group of students and professors from two schools in Minas Gerais, Brazil will travel to the Arab country for a cultural experience at a local university.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2305,"featured_media":216564,"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":[89],"tags":[339,1996,40513,4440,9308,9309,7759,7758,9305,7462,9307,2251,9306,182],"class_list":{"0":"post-216566","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-culture","8":"tag-lebanon","9":"tag-beirut","10":"tag-belo-horizonte-en-2","11":"tag-belo-horizonte","12":"tag-cultural-exchange","13":"tag-cultural-immersion","14":"tag-emge","15":"tag-esdhc","16":"tag-lascc","17":"tag-professor","18":"tag-program","19":"tag-roberto-khatlab","20":"tag-student","21":"tag-usek"},"wps_subtitle":"A group of students and professors from two schools in Minas Gerais, Brazil will travel to the Arab country for a cultural experience at a local university. 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