Brazilian Trade Mission: Egypt – Iran – Lebanon April 11 to 17th, 2010
The Ministry of Development, Industry and Foreign Trade in partnership with the Ministry of External Relations, the Brazilian Trade and Investment Promotion Agency, the Arab Brazilian Chamber of Commerce and the Chamber of Commerce and Industry Brasil-Iran will organize a mission to three countries in the Middle East.
The mission, led by the Minister Miguel Jorge, will visit Iran, Egypt and Lebanon, and aims to promote Brazilian investments in that region and explore potential cooperation between the productive sectors in Brazil and in these countries.
The objective is to encourage the expansion of our trade and cooperation with non-traditional markets, that the federal government has worked with the private sector, in the trade promotion of Brazilian products. This mission represents a real opportunity to expand the Brazilian presence in the Middle East.
Among the priority sectors of the Mission, we highlight: food and beverages, home and construction, machinery and equipment, vehicles, infrastructure and aviation.
The Arab Brazilian Chamber of Commerce relaunched the book "Elementary lessons in Arabic for non-speakers" (Lições elementares da língua árabe para os que não a falam), a basic manual of the language written by the Foreign Relations vice president at the organisation, Professor Helmi Nasr. Egyptian-born, Brazilian-naturalized, he was the founder of the Arabic course at the University of São Paulo (USP) and has lived in Brazil for 46 years.
This is only one of the Professor's works. He has already translated the Koran directly from Arabic into Portuguese. It has been in print since 2005 at the King Fahd Complex, in Medina, Saudi Arabia. He has also launched an Arabic-Portuguese dictionary and translated "New World in the Tropics," a book by Gilberto Freyre, into Arabic.
The Arab Brazilian Chamber provides its users with the Arabic-Portuguese Dictionary of Prof. Dr. Helmi Nasr. The only online Arabic dictionary of Brazil.
Professor Helmi was appointed by the World Islamic League as one of the 21 wise men of Islam in the world and the only one in Latin America. In the Arab Chamber he is vice president of International Relations.
To help organizations to know better the Arab countries and markets and its opportunities, the Arab Brazilian Chamber has a specialized team of professionals to analize and generate economic, market and cultural information.
You can also find data about the foreign trade and opportunities.
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