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The Commercial Knowledge Center aims at gathering data on various areas such as economy, commerce, culture and tourism, and at making it available for research on the relations between Brazil and the Arab countries.

The center is managed by a qualified librarian specialized in systematic research, who also feeds the archives with topics of interest to investors, researchers, students and the general public interested in the culture of these countries. The archives include Brazilian and international literature from different sources for local or online use in different languages.

Together with the market development department at the Arab-Brazilian Chamber of Commerce, the space extends its communication and research to official organizations so that they may produce and spread information. This collection is available to visitors to bring them closer to Arab and Brazilian official sources.

At the Commercial Knowledge Center people interested in information can meet up with professionals from the Arab Chamber who are specialized in various subjects. There is adequate infrastructure for users to collect information, either printed or in presentations, workshops and work meetings.

The Commercial Knowledge Center is located on the premises of the Arab Brazilian Chamber at Av. Paulista, 326 - 16th floor, São Paulo.

For further information, please contact us at (5511) 3147-4071 or send an e-mail to: conhecimento@ccab.org.br

Market Analysis and Overview

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.

 

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.
Arabic Dictionary Online

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.

Click here to do a virtual and know the words in Arabic, its translation into Portuguese and their pronunciation.

Islamic Calendar

The Islamic calendar is a lunar calendar composed of 12 months made out of 29 or 30 days with the total of approximately 354 days. The time counting of this calendar starts with the event of Hijra: Muhammad’s emigration from Mecca to Medina on July, 16th 622.

Since the lunar year does not correspond to the solar year, the Islamic months shifts back each year that goes by. Since the Islamic calendar is 11 days shorter than the solar calendar, the Muslin holidays shift to different Season

Learn more about the Islamic calendar by clicking here!

New Certification Seal

With the aim of achieving excellence and quality and also valuing security, the Arab Chamber developed a new model of certification seal. Click here to learn more about it.

The Arab Chamber certifies export documents and provides the certificate of origin, according to the international model, following the requirements of Arab importers.

The certification is a guarantee for both: the Arab importer and the Brazilian exporter. Furthermore, the Arab Chamber analyses documents in detail, to comply with the standards of origin and meet the requirements of the Arab importer.


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