{"id":270240,"date":"2020-03-25T18:00:49","date_gmt":"2020-03-25T21:00:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/?p=270240"},"modified":"2020-03-25T18:53:10","modified_gmt":"2020-03-25T21:53:10","slug":"its-arab-community-day-in-brazil","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/its-arab-community-day-in-brazil\/","title":{"rendered":"It\u2019s Arab Community Day in Brazil"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>S\u00e3o Paulo \u2013 This Wednesday, March 25<sup>th<\/sup>, is Arab Community Day in Brazil. The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ccab.org.br\/en\/home\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong>Arab Brazilian Chamber of Commerce<\/strong><\/a> is remembering the date online, via a social media campaign set to last from Sunday (22) to March 29. The campaign launch saw Chamber president Rubens Hannun point out how Arab-Brazilian integration is also felt at this critical juncture for the world.<\/p>\n<p>Hannun said in a video that Arabs, who first settled in Brazil as tradespeople, have since branched out into other fields, like the arts, culture, engineering, and last but not least medicine, which is crucial in fighting the coronavirus pandemic. \u201cMedical professionals, some of whom are of Arab descent, are working as hard as they can to contain this pandemic which is plaguing our Country,\u201d he said, pointing out that this also holds true of Arab countries and the whole world.<\/p>\n<p>According to Hannun, the Arab Chamber is working so that the shipping of food items from Brazil to Arab markets won\u2019t stop. \u201cSo that Brazil can keep producing, and that includes producing food for Arabs who need it,\u201d he said. Global food supplies have become a concern amid the crisis, especially for non-producing countries.<\/p>\n<p>Arab Community Day was added to Brazil\u2019s national calendar in 2008. The chosen date, March 25, references the eponymous S\u00e3o Paulo street where the early Arab immigrants opened their stores in the late 19<sup>th<\/sup> century. The Arab Brazilian Chamber\u2019s campaign calls attention to the fact that one of the many contributions to local culture is the cuisine, as Brazilians embraced Arab recipes and dishes.<\/p>\n<p>The Arab Brazilian Chamber\u2019s Arab Community Day campaign was devised due to the inability to host the originally planned exhibit Al Aiyadi, featuring Arab folk art and handicraft. The permanent exhibit will open at the Chamber headquarters as soon as possible, showcasing gifts received by the organization throughout its history. The online campaign features the Chamber\u2019s cultural director Silvia Antibas discussing the exhibit.<\/p>\n<p>S\u00e3o Paulo\u2019s Immigration Museum also marked the date on its social media this Wednesday. It said the earliest official record of Arab presence in Brazil dates from 1874, as Palestine\u2019s Zacarias siblings got off a ship at a Rio de Janeiro port. The late 19<sup>th<\/sup> century saw people arrive from Syria and Lebanon, and in the mid-20<sup>th<\/sup> century Brazil welcomed immigrants from Egypt, Iraq, Tunisia, and Morocco.<\/p>\n<div class=\"single-entry-summary-post-content\">\n<p><em>Pictured: a Lebanese family, courtesy of the Immigration Museum<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Translated by Gabriel Pomerancblum<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"credits-overlay\" data-target=\".wp-image-270229\">Immigration Museum<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Arab Brazilian Chamber marked March 25 online this year. In a social media campaign, the organization\u2019s president remarked that physicians of Arab descent and their colleagues are fighting coronavirus, and that Brazil is working to keep supplying food to Arab countries.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2316,"featured_media":270229,"comment_status":"closed","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":[3066],"tags":[9649,14512,6808,29030,2267,9672,7878],"class_list":{"0":"post-270240","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-society","8":"tag-arab-en","9":"tag-arab-community-day","10":"tag-arabe-en-2","11":"tag-dia-da-comunidade-arabe-en","12":"tag-immigration","13":"tag-rubens-hannun-en","14":"tag-silvia-antibas-en"},"wps_subtitle":"The Arab Brazilian Chamber marked March 25 online this year. In a social media campaign, the organization\u2019s president remarked that physicians of Arab descent and their colleagues are fighting coronavirus, and that Brazil is working to keep supplying food to Arab countries. 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