Word: ghassan
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...Ghassan (Gus) Karim's daughter was on the phone. Karim is a tailor who immigrated to the U.S. from Lebanon in 1969. Thirty-two years later, when George W. Bush took the oath of office as President, he was wearing a suit made by his friend Gus. But after last week's bombings, Karim's daughter, who works for a Dallas financial-consulting company, called in tears. She had been taunted. "You were born in this country. Don't worry about it," Karim told her. A Muslim, a Rotarian and an American success story, he says, "This is my home...
...Nablus, the road bumps down a mile-long stretch of chop shops where cars stolen from Israel are gutted for parts. Arafat's police don't dare touch these garages. "It's a free-trade zone," jokes Khader. Outside the door of his second-floor office, Nablus mayor Ghassan Shaka'a keeps two guards armed with Kalashnikovs. Smartly dressed in a checkered sports jacket, Shaka'a is a member of the executive committee of the P.L.O., a confidant of Arafat's. "Balata is not against me," he says, laughing dismissively. Out on the street, however, he rarely shows his face...