{"id":358840,"date":"2023-09-15T18:25:51","date_gmt":"2023-09-15T21:25:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/arabic-opened-doors-in-the-career-of-claudia-assaf\/"},"modified":"2024-03-24T11:34:48","modified_gmt":"2024-03-24T14:34:48","slug":"arabic-opened-doors-in-the-career-of-claudia-assaf","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/arabic-opened-doors-in-the-career-of-claudia-assaf\/","title":{"rendered":"Arabic opened doors in the career of Claudia Assaf"},"content":{"rendered":"

S\u00e3o Paulo \u2013 \u201cLearning a language like Arabic is a steppingstone to getting to the heart of that culture.\u201d So said the counselor and head of the Consular and Trade and Investment Promotion department of the Embassy of Brazil in Oman, Claudia Assaf (pictured above)<\/em>, during the lecture \u201cArabic and the Brazilian trade and consular diplomacy\u201d held on Thursday (14) in the headquarters of the Arab-Brazilian Chamber of Commerce<\/strong> (ABCC) in S\u00e3o Paulo.<\/p>\n

Packed and ready to go back to Oman, Assaf talked about her rich professional career, pervaded by the learning of Arabic. The Arab Brazilian has a degree in mathematic and started working in technology at early age. Then, aiming to improve her Arabic, she moved to Syria, the homeland of her grandparents, for two years. This was the starting point for her experience abroad. \u201cArabic helped in my professional rise,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n

Assaf worked as a flight attendant at Bahrain-based airline Gulf Air. Due to her fluent Arabic and professional experience, she was invited to work at the royal wing of Gulf Air in the United Arab Emirates, serving the emir of Abu Dhabi and his family as a flight attendant and catering manager of royal planes. Her career as a flight attendant spanned for eight years.<\/p>\n

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\u201cJust because a language is different, it doesn\u2019t mean it\u2019s hard. Language is training to exhaustion\u201d<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

With all this baggage, back to Brazil, Assaf decided to specialize in International Relations and study for entering the Rio Branco Institute. A few years later, she entered the diplomatic career. Assaf has worked in nearly all embassies in the Gulf region, and her dream now is working at the embassy of Brazil in Abu Dhabi, UAE, to complete her experiences across the GCC states.<\/p>\n

The counsellor has a book on the topic, Di\u00e1rio de Bordo \u2013 um voo com destino \u00e0 carreira diplom\u00e1tica<\/em> [Logbook: A flight bound to the diplomatic career], where she talks about her life experience. Assaf is also an Arabic teacher for Brazilians and has a page on Instagram (@ddd.arabe<\/a>) where she gives tips on diplomacy and Arabic.<\/p>\n

\u201cThose who study languages do it to get to the heart of that culture, make connections. When you\u2019re in an Arab country and say some colloquial words in its language, people are wowed as they don\u2019t expect you to speak [Arabic], so they are happy,\u201d said Assaf.<\/p>\n

She said you have to learn classic Arabic to be able to communicate in all Arab countries. \u201cThose who don\u2019t want to stop short must learn the classic Arabic, which isn\u2019t purely literary, and the colloquial of that country. But the classic [Arabic] is understood by all,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n

Many ask Assaf why studying Arabic. \u201cI focused on studying Arabic, and the journey brought me everything from a job in aviation to diplomacy. Thanks to the Arabic, doors have opened,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n

Translation by Guilherme Miranda<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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