The Polytechnic of Lisbon has signed a protocol of cooperation with Junta de Freguesia de Arroios, with a view to the promotion and dissemination of the first public library dedicated to the Middle East and North Africa. The partnership will be streamlined by the Teaching Working Group, collaborating the IPL on the conception of short online courses, credited to elementary and junior high school teachers, and in building a videotape.
Installed in the Library of St. Lazarus, the Middle East and North Africa Public Library brings together books written in Arabic, Persian, Hebrew, Turkish, Urdu, Farsi, Bengali or Hindu, from writers coming from those regions, and also from Portuguese authors translated into those languages. Bringing together the Freguesia of Arroios citizens from 92 different nations, this project intends to reinforce the interculturality, which characterizes this lisboeta freguesia.
This initiative of the Junta de Freguesia of Arroios, in addition to the Polytechnic of Lisbon, also associated with the Camões Institute, the Center for Luso-Arab Studies of Silves and the City Hall of Lisbon. The public Library launch ceremony took place on the June 21, 2021, in the Orient Foundation's Auditorium, and featured a intervention of the Pró-president of the Arts of the Politecnico of Lisbon, professor coordinator Paulo Morais-Alexandre, subordinate to the theme: "From Portugal's link to the world and the arts-revisions of matter given".
Text by Ana Raposo
Pró President for Strategic Communication
@Credicts of the photografias: Carlos Valadas | Arroios Freguesia Junta