{"id":321760,"date":"2022-11-29T18:00:51","date_gmt":"2022-11-29T21:00:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/alalawi-encerra-missao-de-consul-dos-emirados-em-sao-paulo\/"},"modified":"2022-12-02T11:54:58","modified_gmt":"2022-12-02T14:54:58","slug":"alalawi-concludes-mission-as-uae-consul-to-sao-paulo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/alalawi-concludes-mission-as-uae-consul-to-sao-paulo\/","title":{"rendered":"Alalawi concludes mission as UAE consul to S\u00e3o Paulo"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>S\u00e3o Paulo \u2013 The Arab Brazilian Chamber of Commerce (ABCC) held a farewell lunch for <strong>Ibrahim Salem Alalawi<\/strong>, who concluded his term as consul general of the <strong>United Arab Emirates<\/strong> to S\u00e3o Paulo. The event took place this Tuesday (29) and was attended by authorities and board members of the ABCC.<\/p>\n<p>To ABCC president ambassador Osmar Chohfi, the <strong>diplomat<\/strong> brought experience and support to the institution in the years he carried out his mission in Brazil. \u201cWe are not saying goodbye to a consul, but a friend. We want to congratulate you on your work and success in S\u00e3o Paulo. In addition to creating a professional bond, it brought more human elements,\u201d said Chohfi.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_321749\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-321749\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-321749 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/20221129_consul_emirados_arabes_ccab_ELJ-9503-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/20221129_consul_emirados_arabes_ccab_ELJ-9503-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/anba.com.br\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/20221129_consul_emirados_arabes_ccab_ELJ-9503-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/anba.com.br\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/20221129_consul_emirados_arabes_ccab_ELJ-9503-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/anba.com.br\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/20221129_consul_emirados_arabes_ccab_ELJ-9503-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/anba.com.br\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/20221129_consul_emirados_arabes_ccab_ELJ-9503-2048x1365.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-321749\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><em>Chohfi gifted the diplomat who concluded his term in Brazil this Tuesday<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>At the Miski restaurant in S\u00e3o Paulo, the president of the ABCC delivered a plaque in honor of the diplomat. \u201cI really want to thank our relationship between the ABCC and the <strong>Consulate<\/strong>. And as they say in Latin, \u2018words fly;\u2019 we want to give something concrete,\u201d Chohfi pointed out.<\/p>\n<p>Alalawi was in office at the UAE Consulate General in S\u00e3o Paulo for five years. \u201cI thank the ABCC and every one of the board members. This is my last day in S\u00e3o Paulo, and this event crowns my journey. Ever since I arrived, the ABCC has welcomed me very well. I was one who helped open the ABCC\u2019s office in Dubai,\u201d he said. The organization opened its first international office in the emirate in 2019.<\/p>\n<p><em>Read also:<\/em><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/arab-brazilian-chambers-dubai-office-turns-two-years-old\/\">Arab Brazilian Chamber\u2019s Dubai office turns two years old <\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The diplomat now returns to Abu Dhabi, the UAE\u2019s capital city. Alalawi remembers, in his years in Brazil, he worked in several fields, such as economics and society. \u201cThe ABCC trusted my work. I\u2019m proud of it. We will keep in contact in the future. Our doors are open,\u201d he concluded.<\/p>\n<p>The Consulate General of the UAE to S\u00e3o Paulo informed ANBA the name of the diplomat who will take the position left by Alalawi has not yet been made official.<\/p>\n<p>Besides Chohfi, also from the ABCC, were International Relations vice president Mohamad Mourad, Marketing vice president Riad Younes, director-treasurer Nahid Chihcani, and secretary-general &amp; CEO Tamer Mansour. ABCC\u2019s directors Arthur Jafet, Claudia Yazigi, Silvia Antibas, William Atui, and Guidance and Deliberation Board members Walid Yazigi and Rubens Hannun also participated in the tribute.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Translated by El\u00fasio Brasileiro<\/strong><\/p>\n<div class=\"credits-overlay\" data-target=\".wp-image-321744\">Arab Brazilian Chamber<\/div>\n<div class=\"credits-overlay\" data-target=\".wp-image-321749\">Arab Brazilian Chamber<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Arab Brazilian Chamber held a farewell lunch for Ibrahim Salem Alalawi, who finished his mission as consul general of the United Arab Emirates to S\u00e3o Paulo.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2324,"featured_media":321744,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[106],"tags":[9673,4639,37191,11996,37192,2898,2084,37193,28575,29173,10080,37194,2650],"class_list":{"0":"post-321760","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-foreign-affairs","8":"tag-arab-brazilian-chamber-en","9":"tag-camara-arabe-en","10":"tag-consul-en-2","11":"tag-consul-en","12":"tag-consulado-en","13":"tag-consulate","14":"tag-diplomat","15":"tag-diplomata-en","16":"tag-emirados-arabes-unidos-en","17":"tag-ibrahim-salem-alalawi-en","18":"tag-sao-paulo-en","19":"tag-uae-consulate","20":"tag-united-arab-emirates"},"wps_subtitle":"The Arab Brazilian Chamber held a farewell lunch for Ibrahim Salem Alalawi, who finished his mission as consul general of the United Arab Emirates to S\u00e3o Paulo.","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/321760","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2324"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=321760"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/321760\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/321744"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=321760"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=321760"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=321760"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}