LERC Represented by Roberto Khatlab at International Conference in Portugal

Between the 7th and 9th November 2007. Lisbon, Portugal.

The Portuguese Historical Academy, the Centre for Anglo Portuguese Studies and the Centre of History at Lisbon University, hosted The International and Interdisciplinary Congress on the Peninsular War (1807-1814) which commemorated the centenary of the Napoleonic Invasions of Portugal. The sessions were held at Gulbenkian Foundation, Lisbon with an exhibition at the National Library relating to the Peninsular War, running concurrently.

Roberto Khatlab, writer and researcher, and LERC’s Latin-American Liaison Officer, represented The Lebanese Emigration Research Center of the NDU and the Museum National/University Federal of Rio de Janeiro (MN/UFRJ). Mr. Khatlab examined the historic relationship between Lebanon-Portugal-Brazil that dawned during the Phoenician era, was strengthened during the Crusades of the 12th century and from the 15th Century onwards, evolved with these “Christians of the Orient” who arrived by sea in Brazil with the Portuguese