Source: SHOWING ARAB WORLD CINEMA 2016
Between 11 and 28 August, four locations in São Paulo will be hosting the 11th annual Arab World Cinema, bringing the Brazilian public a sample of the best film produced in Arab countries in recent years.
Translated with help of Google Chrom Translation App
FROM AUGUST 10 to 28 (I think August 10th is outside São Paulo)
Khalil Gibran’s THE PROPHET – one of the movies to be shown
Posted on YouTube: August 9, 2016
The Undersecretary of Culture and Education showed up at this Arab Dance workshop in the House of Culture. It was in Varela, a suburb of Buenos Aires. This was a municipal workshop which offered free courses: in this case, Arabic Dance.
Notice the young girls in the background.
This is considered an art form in Latin America, suitable even for young ladies.
It could not be any more mainstream.
Cinefertil – 3rd Annual Latin-American Festival of Arab Cinema
Notice how the background music blends Arab and Tango motifs
NOTICE THE SPONSORS AT THE END OF THE VIDEO
CineFertil is primarily an Argentine based group; but it deals with all of Latin America and the Arabs. Their website (Click Here)
The Festival is from November 1 to 11, 2013 in Buenos Aires.
These cultures (the Latin and the Arab) are inextricably connected.
There is no reason the West cannot bring in Latin America into the negotiations.
At the very least, Latin America could be asked to take in some Arabs from Judea and Samaria (the West Bank) in order to take the pressure off of Israel. The Palestinians should come in with enough money to not burden the Latins. Israel and the West could finance that.
The original video is by a group called Viajeros [Wanderers, Travelers].
Nabil Attar : Oud – A mideastern guitar-like instrument
Javier Ruiz : Guitar y programming
Gilad Atzmon : Invited Saxo Alto – Gilad Atzmon is an (in)famous anti-Zionist Israeli Jew
The background tango is Libertango, modified with an Arab background.
Latin America is starting to have very Arab sympathies.
The is the Palacio Árabe, a major cultural attraction in Mar del Plata, Argentina’s seventh largest city, and a major beach resort.
It was designed in the style of Neo-Mudéjar architecture.
Mudéjar architecture was a blend of Christian and Islamic styles which originated in Spain. In the 19th century the style was revived in Spain as Neo-Mudéjar architecture. It then carried over to Latin-America.
It was built in 1948, thus showing that even at that early date, Arab culture was strong in Argentina.
The Arab society put up a plaque at the entrance which memorializes Mahmoud Khalil-Julian Hassein, the project developer, who died in 1967.
![palacio-arabe[1]](https://latinarabia.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/08/palacio-arabe1.jpg)
The Lebanese Social Center and the Arab People of Mar del Plata
In memory of: Jalil Mahmoud Hassein
Creater, and builder of this legacy
which is the expression of Arab Architecture in its Maximn Splendor
To see some Google pictures from the area, (Click Here)