blog<\/a> whose final post dates from December 2017. He was having health issues and died from complications of pneumonia. His wake was held on Sunday (27) at S\u00e3o Paulo\u2019s Ara\u00e7\u00e1 Cemetery.<\/p>\n\u201cHe was a Brazilian citizen, an Arab citizen, a role model. He managed to incorporate all that is beautiful and positive about two cultures \u2013 one Western, which is Brazilian culture, and the other Eastern, which is Arab culture,\u201d ICArabe president Mohamed Habib told ANBA. Habib also described Farhat as a man of dialogue and peace, a patient, literate man.<\/p>\n
His last term at ICArabe was served as International Relations director. Habib stresses that Farhat was a negotiator and a moderator. At the Arab Chamber, Alaby notes that he was an assiduous, active adviser.<\/p>\n
Fellow Arab Chamber adviser Antonio Greggio sent a message to the organization upon learning of his friend\u2019s passing. \u201cI had the pleasure to meet him during the time he was involved in the struggle for entering Arab markets, in the now-long gone decades of 1970-1980. Every now and then we would meet in trips to the East, or while working at the Chamber,\u201d he wrote.<\/p>\n
According to Greggio, Farhat liked to talk and tell stories and anecdotes. \u201cHe was well-read, well-travelled, intelligent, a keen observer and critic. Like with all Arabs, his spirit was split into two irreconcilable personalities: on the one hand, the pragmatic, down-to-earth trader; on the other hand, the passionate idealist, obsessed with politics and the impossible,\u201d Greggio said.<\/p>\n
A native of Brazil\u2019s Acre state, Farhat studied in Lebanon and Brazil. He graduated in Political Sciences from the Saint Joseph University in Beirut, Lebanon and in Advertising and Marketing from Escola Superior de Propaganda e Marketing (ESPM), in S\u00e3o Paulo. Farhat spoke Portuguese, Arabic, French and English.<\/p>\n
The political scientist-cum-businessman also completed extension and postgraduate courses in Foreign Trade, at Funda\u00e7\u00e3o Get\u00falio Vargas (FGV- SP), Introduction to Political Theory and International Law, at Pontif\u00edcia Universidade Cat\u00f3lica (PUC-SP), and Philosophy, at Coll\u00e8ge Patriarcal Grec-Catholique (CPGC), in Beirut.<\/p>\n
Translated by Gabriel Pomerancblum<\/strong><\/p>\nPersonal Archive<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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