This Wednesday (16) in your ANBA Bulletin: the Brazil-Egypt Business Meeting held last week by the Arab Brazilian Chamber of Commerce led to deals for Brazilian enterprises. Preserve company Dom Villê Conservas of São Paulo agreed to purchase two containers' worth of preserved olives from two Egyptian companies. “In my niche, imports from Egypt tend to increase a lot,” Dom Villê partner Gregório Hadje Kartalian (left in the picture above) told Isaura Daniel. Kartalian said olives from Egypt are currently cheaper than those from Argentina, a usual supplier to Brazil.
Also featured is a report from Bruna Garcia on Ramadan. If you are about to travel to an Islamic country, find out what and what not to do during the season when Muslims go on a fast from dawn to dusk. The Muslim calendar month will begin this Wednesday or Thursday, depending on the country or region at hand. “During this holy time, people’s focus shifts towards the spiritual and away from the material,” Federation of Muslim Associations in Brazil (Fambras) vice president Ali Zoghbi explained.
And Thursday (17) will see the Brazilian premiere of Until the Birds Return, a film by Algerian director Karim Moussaoui, which was nominated for the Un Certain Regard section of the Cannes Film Festival last year. The film tells the story of three people in Algeria – a wealthy young property developer, a woman torn between reason and emotion and an ambitious neurologist stuck with his memories. “Three stories that involve us in the soul of a contemporary Arab society,” claims distributor Imovision.