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Article: LANGUAGE, PEOPLE SKILLS PAID OFF WELL.(SERIES: BUSINESS 2003)(Business)
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- The Post-Standard (Syracuse, NY)
- Article date:
- February 10, 2003
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Byline: James T. O'Hara Staff writer
THEN: Translator
NOW: Restaurateur
Mike Ghabarou liked languages and loved meeting people from different cultures as he was growing up in his native Tunisia.
Those interests helped land the downtown Syracuse restaurateur his first - and exceptionally well-paying - job as a teenager in the mid 1960s: working on a huge American construction company project building an airport in Tunis, the Tunisian capital.
"They needed someone who spoke English who could communicate between the workers and the American foremen," Ghabarou said.
Arabic was his native language and French was the ...