São Paulo to train Moroccan players
Brazil-Arab News Agency
Aurea Santos*
31/10/2013 – 09:50hsA five-year agreement signed between São Paulo Football Club and OCP S.A. from Morocco will organized the travel of youths aged 14 to 17 to practice with the Brazilian team’s youth players.
If you are going to train soccer players, Brazil would be the place to learn.
(Click Here) to see our previous LatinArabia post about an Arab Dancer who made it to Talent Chile. She was a big hit.
Note: There is a view of topless in the screenshoot, but the video itself is pixelated. Sorry, I usually do not post adult images, but this was for information purposes.
2nd Note: The protest was so furious, that the video has been pulled from the web. If you click the video start button, it now says private. I leave the link up only as a record.
Of course! She was a big hit. She went topless!
The problem is: Arabs, even Christian Arabs, are a morally conservative lot; and they are furious about this. Chilean society is very conservative, even the non-Arab Christian majority. This was not the country to go topless on a major TV program; and especially with a conservative Arabs, even though they are Christian.
This is not just Arab-Chileans. A lot of non-Arabs take up Arab dancing as an art form. They do not like it being degraded. The art form has been embraced by Latin American women. They are all furious.
This was put up on the web, two days ago. They are furious about the incident.
Look at this:
I usually do not post adult images, but this is what the protestors posted on the net.
Calling all teachers and students of Arab Dance in the country to a
PROTEST at the offices of ChileVision to make it known to the executives
of this channel and the country that …
THIS IS NOT ARAB DANCE
Enough of presenting the profession and passion of a decent people
as a nudist spectacular, vulgar, and of bad taste.
Date: Thursday, October 31st.
Place: Metro Manuel Montt
Time: 10:30 AM
They really were upset. Videos of Miss Gonzalez’s dance have been pulled from YouTube.
99% of Chile’s Arabs are Christian. So this is not Muslim outrage. Many teachers and students of Arab Dancing are not even ethnic Arabs. This is cultural outrage.
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 Arabs know how many Arabs are in Latin America
26/10/2013 – 07:00hs
Lebanon to host Ibero-Americano Cinema FestivalFilms from Brazil, Argentina, Chile, Colombia, Uruguay, Peru, Venezuela, Mexico, El Salvador, Portugal and Spain will be shown in Beirut, from October 31st to November 8th.
From the Newsroom*São Paulo – The 4th Ibero-American Cinema Festival will be held in Beirut from October 31st to December 8th. The public may view movies from Brazil, Argentina, Chile, Colombia, Uruguay, Peru, Venezuela, Mexico, El Salvador, Portugal and Spain, to be exhibited at Metropolis Empire Sofil.
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There are about 12-14 Million Maronite Christian Lebanese in Latin America alone. About 10x the number of Maronite Christians in Lebanon. Almost every Lebanese Christian in Lebanon has a relative in Latin America. They keep up connections.
