Roberto Khatlab News Today

Researcher and writer Roberto Khatlab will talk about the history of resilience in the Arab country in a lecture on August 3 at the Monte Líbano Club.

Writer and researcher Roberto Khatlab (pictured below) pens an article on the newspapers, magazines, and books produced by the first Arab immigrants in Brazil. The works followed the trends of the Arab Renaissance and were digitized in a project by the Lebanese university USEK and the Arab Brazilian Chamber.

Some of the most powerful people in Brazil trace their lineage back to Lebanon. The story of these immigrants is one of hard work, hardship and stigma.

An exhibition in the Austrian Hospice on the travels of the Brazilian emperor to the Holy Land in 1876 opened on Friday (2). A documentary on the topic has also been launched.

The Brazilian team will play its first match at the World Cup in Qatar next Thursday (24) with the support of national and foreign fans. The team is one of the favorites in Arab countries, and Brazilian communities in the region have been driving local fan support.

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SAO PAULO, Brazil: Although an estimated 18 million Latin Americans can trace their ancestry to the Arab region, little effort has been made to chronicle and conserve the writings, photographs and news clippings that document the history of their migration and settlement — until now. Most of the Arabs who moved to Latin America did so in the final decades of the 19th century

The Library of Lebanese university USEK has established cooperation with the Moise Khayrallah Center in the United States. Through it, a digital collection of journals and newspapers published by Arab immigrants in Latin America will be processed with OCR technology, facilitating research.

The Project of the Memory of Arab Immigration in Brazil has completed its first phase and makes available 100,000 digitized pieces. They include pictures and content written by Arab immigrants in their early years in Brazil. The link will be launched officially in an event on Saturday (26) at the Immigration Museum.

A exposição virtual "+140 anos da presença libanesa no Brasil" contará com acervo inédito, com obras como fotos, mapas e coleções de selos de edições comemorativas. A abertura da exposição será na próxima segunda-feira (06).