By Prensa Latina,
Cairo : Latin American culture, tourism, craftworks and cinema, among other products, are on display here as tribute to Egyptian friendship with that region.
A Jesuit school at a poor neighborhood in Cairo will host until April 17 the 6th El-Nahda Association cultural program titled “From the Nile to the Amazon”.
The display –with contributions by the embassies of Cuba, Mexico, Guatemala, Panama, Peru and Brazil, plus Spain- tries to teach the children and youth to keep an open mind towards the rest of the world.
Habano cigar, a guayabera shirt, a Guatemalan leather belt and craft, colorful Maya knitting and two Mexican sculls made of sugar make up this tour on the western side of the Atlantic.
Also suggestive are the photos and crafts with the green-and-yellow colors of Brazil on the bodies on samba dancers at the carnivals in Rio, and books in Arabic and Spanish by world famed writers Pablo Neruda and Gabriel Garcia Marquez.
The program is aimed at developing creativity and analytical views in the new generations to transform reality, so literature goes along with cinema, theater, photos and music.
The event hosted a singular fusion of Oriental rhythm with guaguanco, jazz, son, bolero, meringue and rumba played by Tathy Salama, only Egyptian musician winner of a Grammy Award, and his Al-Sharquiat Ban, and the female quintet CubanaSon.