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"America is the only country on earth where a foreigner is not called a foreigner," he says. "It's the only country in the world where you can land at [John F. Kennedy Airport] and within 24 hours be working, with a place to live and a license to drive."
President Bashar al-Assad's economic liberalization policies have spurred many Syrian-Americans, like [Louay Habbal], to leave their comfortable American lives and return to Syria. "There are tremendous . opportunities right now in Syria. Things economically are accelerating rapidly and every day there are new unorganized opportunities," Habbal says.Despite the fact that his loyalty was questioned after 9/11, and that he opposes the Iraq war, Habbal calls himself an "American ambassador." "I tell people America is a good country with good but misguided people," he says.See the full content of this document
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Syrian Expatriates Return Hoping for Wealth
DAMASCUS - For Louay Habbal, sipping his latte in an upmarket coffee shop in Damascus, the U.S. will always be home.
The warmth of the people, the possibility of achieving success from nothing, and the vast...See the full content of this document
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