{"id":262490,"date":"2019-11-19T07:00:53","date_gmt":"2019-11-19T10:00:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/?p=262490"},"modified":"2019-11-18T20:10:34","modified_gmt":"2019-11-18T23:10:34","slug":"arab-chamber-to-join-unesco-event-on-heritage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/arab-chamber-to-join-unesco-event-on-heritage\/","title":{"rendered":"Arab Chamber to join UNESCO event on heritage"},"content":{"rendered":"

S\u00e3o Paulo \u2013 UNESCO<\/a> and the S\u00e3o Paulo City Hall<\/a> are hosting Encontro do Patrim\u00f4nio Documental de S\u00e3o Paulo <\/em>(the S\u00e3o Paulo Documental Heritage Meeting) S\u00e3o Paulo, an event on heritage preservation slated for November 21 at the Historical Municipal Archive (pictured above<\/em>) and featuring historian and Arab Brazilian Chamber of Commerce<\/strong><\/a> Cultural director Silvia Antibas.<\/p>\n

Antibas will discuss the immigration history digitization<\/a> project being rolled out by the Arab Chamber and by Lebanon\u2019s Holy Spirit University of Kaslik (USEK<\/a>).<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019m really glad that UNESCO has invited us to showcase this work, which is already bearing fruit, despite being ant-like work. This is really important so we can publicize it, so institutions can become aware and join in. Having UNESCO recognize this work is an encouragement for us to go on,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n

Antibas will sit on a panel whose inquiries will include \u2018Is preservation of documental heritage a job of culture or management?\u2019. According to Antibas, \u201cdocumenting can be done by technicians, but the content must be treated by specialists. Curation is important in determining what gets digitized and what gets thrown out, so there\u2019s no pileup and you just keep what\u2019s relevant,\u201d explained Antibas.<\/p>\n

Heloisa Abreu Dib Julien is the historian leading the project at the Arab Chamber. She explains that it begun in the second half of 2018 and has no set date to end. \u201cIt\u2019s a job that we don\u2019t know how long it\u2019s going to last because it\u2019s a lot. From the first publication \u2013 in 1893 \u2013 up till the 20s, for example, at least 290 titles were published,\u201d Dib explains about the periodicals the project is currently scanning.<\/p>\n

Among Arab newspapers and magazines published in Brazil, 104,000 images were scanned until now. The project team tracked documents at institutions such as Club Homs, Lar S\u00edrio Pr\u00f3-Inf\u00e2ncia, Arquivo P\u00fablico do Estado de S\u00e3o Paulo, and M\u00e1rio de Andrade Library.<\/p>\n

After this first phase focused on periodicals, the digitalization will also cover registrations from the Arab institutions in Brazil themselves, such as clubs and charitable organizations, as well as documents and photos of Arab-descendant families. For Dib, the importance of this work is preserving the material in order to save the Arab culture in the country. \u201cWhen we go to the organizations, they realize how few documents on Arab immigration they have. They start receiving more materials on that and open their eyes to that,\u201d the historian said.<\/p>\n

Quick facts<\/strong><\/p>\n

Encontro do Patrim\u00f4nio Documental de S\u00e3o Paulo<\/em>
\nNovember 21st<\/sup>
\nFrom 2 pm on
\nArquivo Hist\u00f3rico Municipal de S\u00e3o Paulo<\/a>\u00a0\u2013 Pra\u00e7a Coronel Fernando Prestes, 152, Bom Retiro<\/p>\n

Translated by Gabriel Pomerancblum & Guilherme Miranda<\/strong><\/p>\n

Press Release<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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