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Mourão: Strategic Brazilian-Arab ties already in place This Monday in your ANBA Bulletin: Vice president Hamilton Mourão visited the Arab Brazilian Chamber of Commerce in São Paulo, where he participated in a lunch in his honor. In an interview with ANBA and TV Brasil, he stressed that strategic Brazil-Arab countries relations are already in place. “I already consider relations to be strategic at this point, because trade in foodstuffs is very solid, and food security is a strategic issue for any country,” he said. But he added that the economic interchange is expanding to other areas. “Our trade is moving into other higher value-added products,” he said. The vice president also complimented the Arab Chamber’s work in bring Brazilians and Arabs close together. “I find what these people here (at the Chamber) do is admirable in terms of connecting our peoples,” he said. And the Embassy of Kuwait in Brasília and the Arab Brazilian Chamber will host the Kuwait Cultural Week to kick off next Thursday (5) featuring a photo exhibit, Arabic calligraphy, handicraft, a lecture, and music performances. Check out the details on the story by Bruna Garcia. In the section The Arabs and Me, read a profile on Flavia Haddad, a Brazilian granddaughter of Lebanese grandparents that left engineering for Egyptology. |
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São Paulo – Brazil’s vice president Hamilton Mourão said this Monday (2) that even though the country already sustains strategic relations with the Arab world, economic ties can increase even further. “I already consider relations to be strategic at this point,” he said. |
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São Paulo – The Kuwait Cultural Week in São Paulo kicks off next Thursday (5) featuring a photo exhibit, Arabic calligraphy, handicraft, a lecture on the teaching of Arabic, and music performances. |
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São Paulo – A new postage stamp celebrating the 51st anniversary of the establishment of diplomatic relations between Brazil and Kuwait was launched by Correios. The creation is a partnership between the institution, the Ministry of Science, Technology, Innovation and Communication, and the Embassy of Kuwait in Brasília and was launched on November 29 night. |
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São Paulo – A granddaughter of Lebanese immigrants is part of a team of archeologists and Egyptologists that help spreading the history of Ancient Egypt in Brazil. Brazilian-born Flavia Haddad studied Egyptology and Egyptian archeology for 10 years. |
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São Paulo – Saudi Arabia replaced Japan in the G20’s yearlong rotating presidency on Sunday (1st). The leaders of the world’s 19 biggest economies plus the European Union will descend on the Saudi capital, Riyadh, on November 21 and 22, 2020. |
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