{"id":387339,"date":"2025-05-07T14:45:09","date_gmt":"2025-05-07T17:45:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/?p=387339"},"modified":"2025-05-07T14:45:12","modified_gmt":"2025-05-07T17:45:12","slug":"adnan-al-kassar-of-union-of-arab-chambers-dies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/adnan-al-kassar-of-union-of-arab-chambers-dies\/","title":{"rendered":"Adnan Al-Kassar of Union of Arab Chambers dies"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>S\u00e3o Paulo \u2013 Adnan Al-Kassar, honorary president of the Union of Arab Chambers and a prominent figure in both the public and private sectors in Lebanon and the Arab world, has passed away. The Union of Arab Chambers, which represents Arab businesses and brings together Arab chambers from around the world, announced his death on its website. Al-Kassar died last Friday (2) at the age of 94. The <strong>Arab-Brazilian Chamber of Commerce<\/strong> (<a href=\"https:\/\/ccab.org.br\/en\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">ABCC<\/a>) sent a message of condolences to the institution, which Al-Kassar once presided over.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Born in Beirut in 1930, he earned a law degree from Saint Joseph University. He is known as a pillar of the Lebanese and Arab private sector and is one of the founders of the Fransabank Group. He held leadership positions in both Lebanese and regional organizations, including the Federation of Lebanese Chambers of Commerce, Industry and Agriculture (FCCIAL) and the Association of Mediterranean Chambers of Commerce and Industry (ASCAME). Al-Kassar also served as Lebanon\u2019s Minister of Economy and Trade and later as Minister of State.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Union of Arab Chambers said on its website that Adnan Al-Kassar played a pivotal role in its progress and renaissance, highlighting his contribution to the construction of the Union\u2019s General Secretariat building in the Lebanese capital, Beirut\u2014named after him, \u201cAdnan Kassar Building for Arab Economy\u201d\u2014as well as his efforts to develop Arab and foreign relations. According to the institution, he exerted great efforts to elevate its status.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Translated by Guilherme Miranda<\/strong><\/p>\n<div class=\"credits-overlay\" data-target=\".wp-image-387333\">Supplied<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Honorary president of the institution, Al-Kassar died at the age of 94, having held ministerial positions and built a leadership career in both the Lebanese and Arab private sectors.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2316,"featured_media":387333,"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":[3066],"tags":[53123,17362,48585,52733,51383],"class_list":{"0":"post-387339","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-society","8":"tag-adnan-al-kassar-7","9":"tag-death","10":"tag-lebanon-2","11":"tag-obituary","12":"tag-union-of-arab-chambers-2"},"wps_subtitle":"Honorary president of the institution, Al-Kassar died at the age of 94, having held ministerial positions and built a leadership career in both the Lebanese and Arab private sectors.","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/387339","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\/2316"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=387339"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/387339\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/387333"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=387339"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=387339"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=387339"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}