Lebanese Brazilian

Lebanese Brazilian
Líbano-brasileiro
البرازيلي اللبناني

Notable Lebanese Brazilians: Carlos Ghosn · Luciana Gimenez Murad · Paulo Maluf  · Daniella Sarahyba · G. Kassab · Tony Kanaan Arnaldo Jabor · Geraldo Alckmin · F. Haddad José Maria Alkmin · Michel Temer
Total population
The Lebanese government claims there are 7 - 10 million Brazilians of lebanese descent [1].
Regions with significant populations
Brazil: Mainly in São Paulo State, Minas Gerais, Goiás, Rio de Janeiro.
Languages
Brazilian Portuguese and Lebanese Arabic
Religion
Catholicism 65%, Eastern Orthodox Church 20%, Shia Islam, Sunni Islam, and Druze 15% Today predominantly Catholicism and some Sunni Islam, Irreligion.
Related ethnic groups
Other Brazilian and Lebanese people White Brazilians, Arab Brazilians

A Lebanese Brazilian (Portuguese: Líbano-brasileiro) (Arabic: البرازيلي اللبناني) is a Brazilian person of full, partial, or predominantly Lebanese ancestry, or a Lebanese-born person immigrant in Brazil. Between 1884-1933 130,000 Lebanese people immigrated to Brazil^{[citation needed]}. 65% of them were Catholics (Maronite Catholics and Greek Melkite Catholics)^{[citation needed]}, 20% were Greek Orthodox and 15% were Muslims (Shia^{[citation needed]}, Sunni and Druze). During the Lebanese Civil War 32,000 Lebanese people immigrated to Brazil.^{[citation needed]}

Lebanese culture has influenced many aspects of Brazil's culture^{[citation needed]}. In big towns of Brazil it is easy to find restaurants of Lebanese food, and dishes, such as sfihas, hummus, kibbeh, tahina, just like anywhere else in the world. Tabbouleh and halwa are very well known among Brazilians.

Most Lebanese immigrants in Brazil have worked as traders, roaming the vast country to sell textiles and clothes and open new markets. Lebanese-Brazilians are well-integrated into Brazilian society.^{[citation needed]}

List of Brazilians of Lebanese ancestry

Lebanese and Syrians Immigrants(1920) - French Consulate Estimative

Location	Immigrants [2]
São Paulo and Santos	130.000
Pará	20.000
Rio de Janeiro	15.000
Rio Grande do Sul	14.000
Bahia	12.000

The Hospital Sírio-Libanês(Syrian-Lebanese Hospital) founded by the Lebanese Community in 1931 in São Paulo.

Igreja Ortodoxa São Jorge de Brasília (St. George Greek Orthodox Church) located in Brasília.

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Lebanese Mosque in Cuiabá, Brazil.

Notable Lebanese Brazilians

Please see List of Lebanese people in Brazil

See also

• Immigration to Brazil
• White Brazilian
• Arab Brazilian

References

1. ^ http://books.google.com.br/books?id=8g_NduoKW3MC&pg=PA94&dq=arab+emigration+to+brazil&lr=&as_brr=3&ei=c1NcS7TSHYaszATXofjsDQ&cd=2#v=onepage&q=table&f=false Jeffrey Lesser. Negotiating national identity: immigrants, minorities, and the struggle for ethnicity in Brazil. Table 3, p. 49. (the original source, reported in the book, is Revista de Imigração e Colonização 1, n. 03 (July 1940): 617-638.) The total figure, 107,135, includes some non-Arabs, such as Armenians (826). Notice that while most Middle Eastern immigrants fall under "Turks", this is actually a misnomer, as it refers to the passport (of the Ottoman Empire) used by Levantine immigrants in their arrival to Brazil.