This Wednesday (27) in ANBA Bulletin: universities in Carthage (Ucar) and Manouba (UMA), Tunisia, entered into an agreement with Federal University of São Carlos (UFSCar), Brazil for exchange and knowledge sharing. The agreement was reached during a trip to Brazil of a Tunisian delegation including presidents Olfa Sioud, of Ucar, and Jouhaina Ghrib, of UMA, alongside professor Cherifa Lakhoua, who coordinates the master's program in Hospitality and Tourism at the Ucar Institute for Higher Studies in Commerce. “With this agreement, we can carry out the interchange of students, professors and other professionals from various disciplines, but specially in the sectors of entrepreneurship, tourism and hospitality,” said Lakhoua.
And check out interviews with two photographers whose work will be in the exhibit “Taswir, contemporary Arab photography”: the French-Algerian Lazare Mohamed Djeddaoui, and US-born Lebanese-descendant Rania Matar. The showing held by the Arab Brazilian Chamber of Commerce and the Arab World Institute, in Paris, opens Thursday (28) at Instituto Tomie Ohtake, in São Paulo. It will mark Arab Community Day in Brazil and the 74th anniversary of the Arab League.
And Uber bought out Dubai's app-based ride-sharing company Careem, active throughout the Middle East and North Africa, in a USD 3.1 billion deal.