{"id":136467,"date":"2013-10-11T13:44:40","date_gmt":"2013-10-11T16:44:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/?p=136467"},"modified":"2013-10-11T14:02:59","modified_gmt":"2013-10-11T17:02:59","slug":"new-roots-in-brazil","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/new-roots-in-brazil\/","title":{"rendered":"New roots in Brazil"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"L\u00e9o Ramos<\/span>It\u2019s not easy to find an Iraqi researcher living in Brazil and residing in S\u00e3o Paulo. And it\u2019s even more difficult to find one that has discovered his aptitude for scientific activity during a trip to Brazil. \u201cTo tell you the truth, I don\u2019t know any other Iraqi who matches my profile,\u201d admits Khalid Basher Mikha Taliche, who is doing a post-doctorate at the University of S\u00e3o Paulo (USP), School of Philosophy, Letters and Humanities, Department of Oriental Languages. He left Mosul, where he was born, 15 years ago after a Brazilian cousin convinced him to go to Brazil to teach English, which he had done in Iraq. In S\u00e3o Paulo he was hired by the Roosevelt Institute of Languages and the planned short visit took on a more serious aspect. \u201cIn 2000, an English teacher at the school who was working on a master\u2019s degree in history at USP, introduced me to the university. The following year I decided to enroll as a special student in an extension course in modern language translation,\u201d he says.<\/p>\n

Again, Taliche made a choice with no great expectations, but it led him along a path he never imagined he would take. Between 2005 and 2007, he undertook a master\u2019s research project on a play by an Iraqi playwright, Yousif El-Saigh, who was inspired by William Shakespeare\u2019s Othello. As a result, in 2008, he began studying fundamentalist thinking for his doctorate. Last year he completed his doctorate, but he was still not satisfied. His desire for new knowledge connected to his Arabic roots led him to a post-doctorate begun in May 2013. His goal is to analyze two literary society movements that sprang up during the Arab diaspora through the work of two writers: Chafiq Al Maluf (1905-1977), who immigrated to S\u00e3o Paulo, and Mikhail Naimy (1889-1988), who lived in New York.<\/p>\n

When he completes his post-doctorate in 2015, Taliche plans to publish a book about his experiences for young university students. \u201cThe quality of teaching and research dropped sharply after Iraq went through wars and the dispersion of its citizens. I want to show that it is possible to achieve a successful future by opting for scientific research,\u201d says Taliche. “I had to come to Brazil to acquire my taste for research, through which I can keep my relationship with the Arab world alive,\u201d he says.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"New roots in Brazil","protected":false},"author":475,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1204],"tags":[226],"coauthors":[785],"class_list":["post-136467","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-careers","tag-education"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/136467","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/475"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=136467"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/136467\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=136467"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=136467"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=136467"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=136467"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}