Wassil Sawtak

10/13/2026

10/08/2026

From Beirut to the Louvre Abu Dhabi. 🇱🇧

Lebanese art historian and curator Souraya Noujaim has been appointed director of Louvre Abu Dhabi, returning to the institution she helped shape during its formative years.

Born in Lebanon in 1967, Noujaim built an international career across some of the world’s leading cultural institutions, including the Louvre, the British Museum and the Institut du Monde Arabe.

She later became the first Scientific, Curatorial and Collections Management Director of Louvre Abu Dhabi, before returning to Paris to lead the Louvre’s Department of Islamic Arts, overseeing around 18,000 works.

Now, she is back in Abu Dhabi — this time at the helm of the museum, as it approaches its 10th anniversary.

A Lebanese journey that went from Beirut to Paris, London and Abu Dhabi.

10/05/2026

🇧🇷🇱🇧 Brazil is voting and millions of people with Lebanese roots are part of that story.

As Brazil heads to a presidential runoff between Flávio Bolsonaro and Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, one of the world’s largest Lebanese communities outside Lebanon is taking part in the country’s electoral process.

For generations, Lebanese immigrants and their descendants have built lives in Brazil becoming voters, entrepreneurs, public officials and active members of Brazilian society.

They are not simply a Lebanese community living abroad.

They are Brazilian citizens with Lebanese roots, shaping the future of the country they call home.
From Lebanon to Brazil, the diaspora story is not only about where people came from.

It is about where they belong and what they help build.