Read at ANBA Bulletin this Monday (4) that the Brazilian branch of the commodities trading company RCMA Group will for the first time participate  in Gulfood, the food and beverage fair to occur from February 17 to 21 in Dubai, United Arab Emirates. The company will exhibit at Arab Brazilian Chamber of Commerce's pavillion. “We have many businesses with Africa and the Middle East, and we have already visited Gulfood for the last years, and for this year we decided to participate in the Arab Brazilian Chamber stand to maintain contacts and prospect for new clients,” said the RCMA director in Brazil Felipe Ferraz. In Brazil, the company works with sugar exports.

You will also learn that Museu do Café in Santos, São Paulo, is researching Arab coffee memories. It is a project of oral history where immigrants from Arab countries are being interviewed to talk about the bean. The initiative started when the board of the Santos institution established contact with the Coffee Museum in Dubai. The brewing in the Gulf region is completely different from the Western way. “We noticed the Arab coffee culture is under-studied even among baristas. You have only the way to make that coffee but don’t see the rites and traditions involved in it,” said the researcher Bruno Bortoloto.

Check also that the writer and retired judge Romeu Abílio wrote a second book talking about the Arab immigration in the interior of Minas Gerais, Brazil. After “Lembranças Minurcas,” a non-fiction work published in 2016, now the Arab-descendant Abílio launches“Ibrahim Hanna e Excêntricos Sírio-Libaneses no Sul de Minas”, where he combines fiction and reality. “That is the book intention, not letting our culture die,” he said to the reporter Bruna Garcia.