Part of the proceeds from coffee grown by a Lebanese will be funneled to help the Syrian people. For each Yalla Yalla pack bought, roasting business Tocaya will donate BRL 5 to the Arab country through the UN World Food Programme.
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The São Paulo native of Lebanese origin has a career spanning over three decades. Assad is a singer, guitarist, songwriter, and much more. She talked about the influences of her family, deeply connected to music.
Assistant manager of CineSesc, Yunes was one of the founders of the Arab World Film Festival. She is a Lebanese Brazilian and talks about what it was like growing up in that culture.
Three movies will be screened on Saturdays at Clube Monte Líbano on October 8, 15 and 22. Entrance is free, and the festival is open to the public.
The former president of Brazil, Michel Temer, participated in the first day of the Global Halal Brazil business forum. The event runs until December 8 in a hybrid format.
In the opening ceremony of the Global Halal Brazil forum, Arab Brazilian Chamber president Osmar Chohfi presented good prospects for the halal market. Agriculture minister Tereza Cristina participated remotely and underscored the magnitude of Brazil as a supplier of certified products.
Of Syrian Lebanese origin, Maha Mamo and her sister were the first stateless persons to have recognized Brazilian nationality. Now, she tells her story to broaden the discussion on the topic and will have a text launched in a project by Sao Paulo’s Museum of Immigration.
The limited-edition chocolate is for sale at Mission Chocolate’s online store. The brand’s founder, Arcelia Gallardo, launched a camel milk chocolate as part of its project to honor the communities composing Brazil’s ethnicity, starting with the Arabs.
The Lebanese-descendant writer launched earlier this year her new novel “Elas marchavam sob o sol” [They marched under the sun]. The writer was a finalist of the Jabuti Award 2018 and won São Paulo Prize for Literature with her previous novel.
“Brimos: Syrian and Lebanese immigration in Brazil and its path to politics” by journalist and Middle East expert Diogo Bercito will be launched on July 22 by Fósforo publishing house.
In an online event of the Arab Community Day in Brazil, non-Arab descendant people addressed how Arab immigrants and countries marked their life stories.
Born in a small village in Lebanon, Jihan Zoghbi moved to Brazil where she obtained her doctoral degree in Computer Science from USP. She chairs the Brazilian Healthcare CIOs Association, which spreads information on the fight against COVID-19.
Juliana Ganan quit working at the Interamerican Development Bank (IDB) to devote herself to her first business venture. Coffee roasting microbusiness A Tocaya is set in Itajubá, Minas Gerais, where her Lebanese family settled in Brazil.
The Institute of Arab Brazilian Culture’s cultural event Majles will feature free attractions on September 12 and 13, including dance presentations, live streams addressing foodemotional memory and social media, and the Arab community in Brazil.
