{"id":298567,"date":"2021-09-14T17:28:59","date_gmt":"2021-09-14T20:28:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/?p=298567"},"modified":"2024-02-29T18:28:13","modified_gmt":"2024-02-29T21:28:13","slug":"arab-brazilian-chamber-receives-duailibi-family-collection","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/arab-brazilian-chamber-receives-duailibi-family-collection\/","title":{"rendered":"Arab Brazilian Chamber receives Duailibi family collection"},"content":{"rendered":"

S\u00e3o Paulo \u2013 Brazilian advertising executive Roberto Duailibi has donated the Duailibi family collection to the Arab Brazilian Chamber of Commerce<\/strong> (ABCC). Over 1,500 pieces, including books, photos, maps, documents and voice notes, recording the history of the Lebanese Brazilian family and the Arab immigration to Brazil, are part of the donation. They will be under the care of the Arab House, a center for the institutional and cultural development of the Arab-Brazilian relations that is affiliated to the ABCC. Pictured above, Roberto Duailibi (L) and ABCC president Osmar Chohfi (R).<\/em><\/p>\n

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Roberto: Different spellings of the surname<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The material delivery was formalized in an event for a select number of guests at the ABCC on Tuesday (14). The pieces will be stored at the entity\u2019s library, as the Arab House operates only from its digital version for now. The ABCC facilities at the Paulista Avenue were designed by architect Ruy Ohtake, and the library will be overhauled to house the records of the Duailibis. The collection will soon be made available to the public.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe\u2019ll treat it with the same care that Roberto devoted to it. We\u2019ll try to make it accessible to descendants that seek information on their origins, as well as Brazilian and foreign scholars and everyone interested in learning something about an age-old society that has contributed so much to the world\u2019s culture, sciences and humanities,\u201d ABCC president ambassador Osmar Chohfi said.<\/p>\n

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Chohfi: \u201cWe\u2019ll treat it with the same care\u201d<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The collect of the material over the years was spearheaded by Roberto in a project called FamilyD Studies Center. During the ceremony of the donation of the collection, the executive addressed the beginning of the initiative. One of the first insights came from the story that his brother used to tell about meeting a young lady called Duailibe with an \u201ce.\u201d \u201cWe got curious about where the other Duailibis were,\u201d Roberto explained. It\u2019s believed that all Duailibis, Duailbs, Dawalibis, Daualibis and other spellings have the same origin.<\/p>\n

In addition to the young lady, other two factors led to the FamilyD project. Roberto used to study the social media concept at the School of Sociology and Politics even before the Internet. \u201cHow many people do you have to know to get in touch with someone that interests you?\u201d he explained on the social media concept from those times. Added to this, the advertising agency Roberto worked at had to make a list of all passengers who were at the first S\u00e3o Paulo-Rio de Janeiro flight of the VASP airliner and managed to do so. \u201cThat encouraged me to do the same with the family \u2013 where they were, how did they came, what relations they had between them.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Antibas stressed the generosity of the donation<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Roberto\u2019s first step was sending a short survey to the Duailibis he knew. \u201cI decided to put into practice what I had learned at the School of Sociology and Politics,\u201d he said. So the D family network started to take shape. Then came the purchase of books on the history of Lebanon, Syria, the Middle East and Arabic, the acquisition of maps, the audio interviews with the first Duailibi immigrants to arrive in Brazil, and the collection got bigger. Up to now, the material was sitting in an apartment in the city of S\u00e3o Paulo.<\/p>\n

\u201cAt first, the intention was writing a book, but then came the Internet and making a website became much easier,\u201d the executive said. On the FamilyD<\/a>\u00a0 website you can find iconography, news, videos, reports from immigrants and descendants, pictures, family tree, and plenty of material on the history of the family and the Arabs. The research has eventually crossed Brazil\u2019s borders and added records of Duailibis from other countries to the collection.<\/p>\n

New home<\/strong><\/p>\n

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A small exhibition of the collection<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

But the apartment got too small for the size of the collection, and Roberto found in the ABCC a new home for the material. Talks had started during the previous administration under president Rubens Hannun, a childhood friend of the advertising executive, and continued with the current president Osmar Chohfi, with whom Roberto unveiled the plaque that will stay at the library indicating the presence of the collection. The excitement shown by the ABCC leaders in receiving the collection influenced his choice, Roberto said. The executive retained only the statues.<\/p>\n

ABCC Cultural director Silvia Antibas said she saw a great generosity in the donation and the reception. \u201cIt\u2019s very generous of the family to donate and very generous of the ABCC to receive,\u201d she said. The director added that they aim to make the collection available to all. \u201cWe want no stored books,\u201d she said. Antibas said that the material will also be digitized as part of the digitization project on the memory of Arab immigration to Brazil that the ABCC carries out with the Holy Spirit University of Kaslik (USEK) in Lebanon.<\/p>\n

The publicist<\/strong><\/p>\n

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A new home for the Duailibi collection<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Roberto Duailibi is one of the most important Brazilian publicists. He was one of the creators of one of Brazil\u2019s largest and most award-winning advertising agencies. He is a professor, sociologist, lecturer, author of books that marked the Brazilian advertising history, and a member of the Academy of Literature of S\u00e3o Paulo. Chohfi described him as a symbol of the Lebanese and Arab Brazilian community. \u201cThe success of Roberto and his family is our success, to, as it projects the best that the Lebanese, Syrians and Arabs in general could bring for the progress of the Brazilian society,\u201d the president said.<\/p>\n

This Tuesday\u2019s event was attended members of the Duailibi family, members of the Arab community in Brazil, and leaders of the ABCC such as secretary-general & CEO Tamer Mansour, Marketing & Communication director Silvana Gomes, International Relations vice president Mohamad Orra Mourad, director Claudia Haddad, director William Atui, former chairman Walid Yazigi, and former president Rubens Hannun. The event was also attended by the general consul of Lebanon in S\u00e3o Paulo Rudy El Azzi, TV Cultura president Jos\u00e9 Roberto Maluf, and Federation of Muslim Associations in Brazil (FAMBRAS) chair \u00a0Ali Zoghbi, among other executives and authorities.<\/p>\n

Translated by Guilherme Miranda<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Fabio Risnic\/Arab Brazilian Chamber<\/div>\n
Fabio Risnic\/Arab Brazilian Chamber<\/div>\n
Fabio Risnic\/Arab Brazilian Chamber<\/div>\n
Fabio Risnic\/Arab Brazilian Chamber<\/div>\n
Fabio Risnic\/Arab Brazilian Chamber<\/div>\n
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