The president of the Lebanese Business Women association, Laila Salhab, announced during a press conference last Saturday the birth of the Arab Union for Productive Households and Traditional and Artisan Industries. Present at the event were Tufic Dabbussi, Chair of the Chamber of Commerce, Industry and Agriculture in Tripoli and the North, Ghassan Azar, representing Elias Aoun, President of Editors Syndicate, in addition to members of the constituent body and press people. (Al Mustaqbal, February 7, 2016)