{"id":400158,"date":"2025-11-28T16:03:10","date_gmt":"2025-11-28T19:03:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/?p=400158"},"modified":"2025-11-28T16:03:17","modified_gmt":"2025-11-28T19:03:17","slug":"arab-brazilian-chamber-unifesp-sign-partnership","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/arab-brazilian-chamber-unifesp-sign-partnership\/","title":{"rendered":"Arab-Brazilian Chamber, Unifesp sign partnership"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

S\u00e3o Paulo \u2013 The Vice President of Marketing at the Arab-Brazilian Chamber of Commerce<\/strong> (ABCC<\/a>), Silvia Antibas, and the dean of the Federal University of S\u00e3o Paulo (Unifesp<\/a>), Raiane Assump\u00e7\u00e3o, signed on Friday (28) a partnership to digitize and research documents aimed at recovering the memory of Arab immigration in Brazil. The agreement was formalized during the seminar \u201cNew Perspectives on the Arab Diaspora in Brazil: Memory, Literature, and Translation\u201d, held at Unifesp\u2019s headquarters in S\u00e3o Paulo.<\/p>\n\n\n

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Natalia Calfat, Silvia Antibas, Raiane Assump\u00e7\u00e3o, Javier Amadeo e Olg\u00e1ria Matos: The event addressed recent approaches to Arab immigration and presented ongoing research<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n

The partnership establishes that Unifesp will provide a team of digitization specialists and researchers to support the Project for Digitizing the Memory of Arab Immigration in Brazil\u2014itself a collaboration between the ABCC and the Holy Spirit University of Kaslik (USEK) in Lebanon. Through this project, families and institutions that hold documents related to Arab immigration lend them to the ABCC for digitization. The materials are then added to a digital database, and the physical copies are returned to their owners along with digital versions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In her presentation at the seminar, Antibas shared more details about the initiative and its importance to the Arab community. \u201cWe are just beginning, and in fact, this project will have no end. For it to thrive, we need partners,\u201d she said, referring to the agreement signed with Unifesp and with other institutions outside the state of S\u00e3o Paulo, including Rio de Janeiros\u2019s National Library Foundation and others in Cear\u00e1, Minas Gerais, and Rio Grande do Sul.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A discussion on Arab immigration<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n

The seminar was held by the Edward Sa\u00efd Chair at Unifesp, in partnership with the ABCC and the Institute for Arab Culture (IcArabe), represented by its president, Natalia Calfat. Also present were former Unifesp rector and founder of the Chair, Soraya Smaili, honorary coordinator Olg\u00e1ria Matos, and coordinator Javier Amadeo.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Oswaldo Truzzi, a professor at the Federal University of S\u00e3o Carlos (UFScar), presented the lecture \u201c<\/em>The Early Days of Studies on the Arab Diaspora.\u201d<\/em> The event\u2019s program also included the launch of the 10th<\/sup> edition of Exilium<\/em> magazine, discussion panels on immigrant press, immigration and demography, literature and translation, as well as a cultural recital.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Read more<\/em>:
A partnership to foster Arab culture<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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

Marcos Carrieri\/ANBA<\/div>
Marcos Carrieri\/ANBA<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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