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ANBA Bulletin, March 10, 2023 ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏
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This Friday (9) in your ANBA Bulletin: The Arab Brazilian Chamber of Commerce (ABCC) organized a Brazilian startup mission to Qatar and the United Arab Emirates. The entrepreneurs participating found an innovative business-friendly reality. Solutions pitched by them also captured the attention of Arab investors and potential partners. ABCC president Osmar Chohfi has begun a new term. In an interview with ANBA, the diplomat talked about the institution’s priorities for the 2023-2024 biennium. Find out who are the vice presidents that accompany Chohfi in this mission. Discover the ties between the Brazilian feijoada and the Arab feijoada. Researcher Roberto Khatlab wrote an article on the historical facts regarding the relation between the two dishes. And a Brazilian opened a steakhouse with social purposes in the UAE, and the Arabian Sertão will be the theme of a square dance in Brazil’s Festa Junina. |
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The fusion between Arab and Northeastern Brazilian cultures will be the theme of a Rio de Janeiro-based June festival [festa junina] square dance group this year. The Cultural Association Quadrilha Junina Geração Realce announced the theme ‘Sertão das Arábias’ [‘Arabian Sertão’] for 2023, authored by cultural producers Ricardo Lizio and Wilson Mendes.
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Diplomat Osmar Chohfi began earlier this year a new tenure as president of the Arab Brazilian Chamber of Commerce (ABCC), after leading the entity in 2021 and 2022. Reelected in January by the ABCC Board of Directors for another two years, Chohfi started the new phase bent on taking the institution to even greater heights of excellence, particularly in digitization and the halal market, what he plans on doing alongside the directors he chose to accompany him.
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My best friend growing up was white. One day she asked her mother when I was going to get better,” narrated Brazilian visual artist Aline Motta in the work ‘A Água é uma máquina do tempo’ [‘Water is a time machine,’ in free translation], on display at the 15th Sharjah Biennial, in the United Arab Emirates. According to her, the work focuses mainly on the story of her great-great-grandmother Ambrosina, who lived in downtown Rio de Janeiro at the turn of the 19th to 20th centuries. “Contrasting with the present, I also report on the death of my mother, who passed away in 2011, and how the life stories of these women are shuffled and intertwined over time,” said Aline.
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Tunisian olive and olive oil producer Olyfo Olive Oil Company is rapidly expanding in the global market and plans on breaking into Brazil. Olyfo is the brainchild of childhood friends Ahmed Hamza and Yahya Chemli and was created in 2020. Three years were enough for the company to reach several foreign markets.
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Brazil’s Cintia da Silva founded Jade’s Restaurant in Dubai late last year. Experienced in the halal barbecue business, the entrepreneur planned the UAE-based restaurant to be a social business, too. Behind the initiative, there’s a cause Silva is personally invested.
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The establishment of a logistics area for grains in the Suez Canal Economic Zone (SCZONE) in Egypt was among the topics of a meeting this week between the assistant foreign minister for American Affairs, ambassador Hazem Fahmy, the Arab Brazilian Chamber of Commerce (ABCC) secretary-general & CEO, Tamer Mansour, and the regional director of the organization’s regional office in Cairo, Michael Gamal.
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This Wednesday (8), International Women’s Day, the Embassy of Bahrain in Brasília paid homage to women who collaborated to strengthen the ties between Brazil and Bahrain. The Corporate & Institutional Services coordinator and executive secretary of the Presidency of the Arab Brazilian Chamber of Commerce (ABCC), Ana Cristina de Oliveira, was one of the recipients.
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Among consumers in Saudi Arabia, 84% are interested in using augmented reality (AR) to interact with products before shopping, according to a study carried out by camera manufacturer and social media company Snap Inc. in partnership with PwC Middle East and Retail Leaders Circle. Results were disclosed on the Saudi Arab News website.
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The Brazilian feijoada is an expression of identity, memory, culture and cuisine in the cauldron of the mixed background of the Brazilian people. The dish is enjoyed across all social classes and is one of the icons of the country’s cuisine. On the other hand, in the Arab East, you can find an age-old dish made of ful or façulia, fava beans, called yakhné, a stew, a kind of Arab feijoada that is also enjoyed across all social classes. The concept of the two feijoadas is one and the same — gathering family and friends around the table.
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Saudi Arabia has included female private driver positions in its platform for domestic work recruiting, Musaned. The new position was launched along with ten new professions in the platform. At Musaned, employers can search for professionals from recruitment agencies that select and refer workers.
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Brazilian startups that participated in a mission to Qatar and the United Arab Emirates last week met an environment conducive to business development by companies of their profile. Members of the delegation were impressed with the innovation ecosystems and incentives for startups in the region, according to the International Business analyst of the Arab Brazilian Chamber of Commerce (ABCC), Leonardo Machado, one of the executives who accompanied the mission organized by the entity. “These ecosystems receive much government support and produce plenty of innovation and opportunities,” he said.
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Brazilian footwear exporters chose target markets to promote their products over the next biennium and included two Arab countries among them. The United Arab Emirates is one of the priority markets, while Saudi Arabia is among the secondary ones. Markets are chosen every time the agreement between the Brazilian Footwear Industries Association (Abicalçados) and the Brazilian Trade and Investment Promotion Agency (ApexBrasil) renew their agreement to develop internationalization program Brazilian Footwear.
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Brazilian oil company Petrobras will study the feasibility of seven offshore wind power generation projects off the Brazilian coast. Potential wind farms could cover the states of Rio de Janeiro, Espírito Santo, Piauí, Ceará, Rio Grande do Norte, and Rio Grande do Sul. They are expected to generate up to 14.5 gigawatts of power. The analysis will be carried out in cooperation with private company Equinor, which has been operating in the country since 2001 and will evaluate technical, economic, and environmental possibilities.
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The Emirates Business Women Council is organizing the World Women Entrepreneurs Summit (WWES), an event for women to foster the achievement of sustainable development and community goals. The conference, to occur from March 10 to 12, aims to bolster the competitiveness of female business leaders; achieve and enhance the leadership and knowledge environment for women entrepreneurs with digital transformation, and will have as its theme Creating impactful businesses in the digital age.
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Brazil reported an important milestone of 868,587 foreign tourists in the first month of 2023. The result is a historical record in the four-year series. The numbers exceeded by over 100,000 people the figure from the last two years before the COVID-19 pandemic when 756,883 (2019) and 750,457 (2020) international visitors entered the country. Compared to January 2022, which had 275,942 tourists, the number almost tripled.
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The novel And the Family Devoured Its Men by Syrian author Dima Wannus, translated into Brazilian Portuguese by Safa Jubran and published by Tabla, is hitting Brazilian bookstores. The book brings for the first time to Brazilian readers this powerful account about the meanings, dimensions and implications of the diaspora as symbolized by the relation between two generations of Syrian women. The book is on presale on the website of publisher Tabla and will be shipped on March 20.
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