Samah Shahadeh
It was possible that the events in Tunisia, Libya, Iraq, Syria and elsewhere were what was bothering Fawaz.
I knew that his business dealings in those countries had been hurt by the conflicts breaking out in those places. He had to close two of his offices in Libya and a securities investment company branch as well. He also shut down two currency exchange branches he had opened up in Damascus when the Syrian authorities allowed non-Syrians to open up money exchange offices. And as for Baghdad, he told me he would have to close his offices there as well if the bombings continued.
But how could he have not foreseen what was happening in those countries?
Ever since the early days of our marriage, it had always been his uncanny and unique intuition that had led to his great
