MUNIB AL-MASRI: BUSINESSMAN, LEADER, AND NATION BUILDER
May 1st, 2013
In the West Bank, everyone calls him ‘The Godfather’ or ‘The Duke of Nablus’ - Munib al-Masri, 79, is the richest Palestinian, the patriarch of a prominent Palestinian family that has produced bankers, consultants and politicians, and also one of the most influential.He worked his way through college in the United States, partly as a Hollywood bartender, and later amassed a fortune first by working in the Jordanian and Algerian oil industries, and then by providing equipment and services to oil companies and investing in a growing Palestinian economy.. He ...
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