{"id":359308,"date":"2024-02-26T20:17:15","date_gmt":"2024-02-26T23:17:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/arabic-school-in-brazil-promotes-arab-culture\/"},"modified":"2024-03-22T17:14:33","modified_gmt":"2024-03-22T20:14:33","slug":"arabic-school-in-brazil-promotes-arab-culture","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/arabic-school-in-brazil-promotes-arab-culture\/","title":{"rendered":"Arabic school in Brazil promotes Arab culture"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>S\u00e3o Paulo \u2013 Established in 2012 to be a cultural promotion hub of various topics, the Brazilian Lebanese International Education Society (Sielbra) teaches Arabic through the culture of Arab countries with a Palestinian teacher. Besides the language, students at Sielbra can attend seminars and exhibitions that present Brazilians with the culture of North Africa and Middle East countries. For the second half of the year, shows and a lecture series are planned. <em>(Pictured, Arabic books in a mosque.)<\/em><\/p>\n<p>The purpose of the school, says one of its founders, Mohamad Said Mourad, is promoting a culture of peace and spreading the Arabic. \u201cWe established [Sielbra] for free postgraduate courses,\u201d recalls Mourada. He says that the institution\u2019s higher education courses are under analysis by Brazil\u2019s Ministry of Education.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt is not just about offering the course. Our job is to make more Arabic and Arab culture courses available, too,\u201d he says. \u201cWe were about to start the course on March 17, 2020. But on March 16, Governor Doria put the S\u00e3o Paulo state in lockdown due to the pandemic, so the course was postponed.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Since classes restarted in 2022, they are taught both online and in person, but, Mourad says, students prefer them online. Most students that seek Sielbra classes are non-Arab Brazilians that are interested in the language and culture. Classes are divided into three 45-hour modules. A calligraphy module is also planned. The course costs BRL 750, divided into six installments of BRL 125 each.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe will hold seminars, we have a bazaar, art, folklore, even politics classes to better understand Middle East issues,\u201d says Mourad. Sielbra offers other courses on various topics, too. An exhibition is planned for the second half of the year. <a href=\"https:\/\/sielbra.com.br\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Find out more.<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Translation by Guilherme Miranda<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>S\u00e3o Paulo\u2019s Sielbra teaches the language spoken in 22 countries not just with grammar and alphabet, but culture as well. Venue also holds seminars and exhibitions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2317,"featured_media":358405,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[89,3066],"tags":[6808,4143,11358,11426,28861,30666,1825,28866,9797,15246,47642,47643,47638],"class_list":{"0":"post-359308","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-culture","8":"category-society","9":"tag-arabe-en-2","10":"tag-arabic","11":"tag-aula","12":"tag-class","13":"tag-conhecimento-en","14":"tag-cultura-en","15":"tag-culture","16":"tag-knowledge","17":"tag-language","18":"tag-lockdown","19":"tag-modules","20":"tag-peace","21":"tag-sielbra"},"wps_subtitle":"S\u00e3o Paulo\u2019s Sielbra teaches the language spoken in 22 countries not just with grammar and alphabet, but culture as well. Venue also holds seminars and exhibitions.","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/359308","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2317"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=359308"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/359308\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/358405"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=359308"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=359308"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=359308"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}