{"id":292820,"date":"2021-05-14T15:45:23","date_gmt":"2021-05-14T18:45:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/?p=292820"},"modified":"2021-05-17T19:57:32","modified_gmt":"2021-05-17T22:57:32","slug":"arabic-teacher-launches-channel-on-lebanese-culture","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/arabic-teacher-launches-channel-on-lebanese-culture\/","title":{"rendered":"Arabic teacher launches channel on Lebanese culture"},"content":{"rendered":"

S\u00e3o Paulo \u2013 Lebanese Brazilian Arabic teacher Karen Hayek (pictured above<\/em>) launched on Thursday, May 13, the debut video in her YouTube channel Cultura Libanesa<\/a> [Lebanese Culture]. \u201cThe channel is entirely focused on Lebanese and their descendants and Arab descendants in general. The main goal is spreading the culture, the language, the customs and interviewing important figures that most people don\u2019t even know are descendants, thus promoting the community,\u201d Hayek told ANBA.<\/p>\n

Karen Hayek has taught Arabic for 23 years since she came back from Lebanon at 16. Her mother is Brazilian, and her father is a Lebanese descendant. Hayek gives private lessons, group lessons, and has an online platform where she teaches students from virtually every Brazilian state and elsewhere, giving classes to Brazilians in countries such as England, United States, Japan and even Lebanon, she says. \u201cI have over one hundred active students,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n

The teacher says she decided to create the YouTube channel to serve the needs of her students. \u201cBased on the questions they ask, their curiosity on the Arab and Lebanese culture during classes, I decided to make this show so that everybody have access to this information, not just my students. That\u2019s the main reason why I created the show,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n

The first episode brings an interview with the consul general of Lebanon in S\u00e3o Paulo, Rudy El Azzi. \u201cI ask him all the question my students always ask regarding consulates, citizenship, consular services for descendants, the consulate\u2019s projects, as well as spreading some information on Lebanon. The consul also discussed some of his diplomatic experience and career,\u201d Hayek said.<\/p>\n

The channel has already recorded ten shows, and on Friday, 14, Hayek was recording other four or five. The 10- to 30-min episodes will be posted weekly.<\/p>\n

Watch the first episode:<\/p>\n