Tom Spender

Freelance journalist & photographer in Beijing

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1001 Beijing Nights

January 18th, 2010 · No Comments · Journalism, Middle East

My story in the Dubai-based culture magazine Brownbook on Farid Fakhour, a Syrian Druze from Suweida who studied medicine in Beijing in the 1980s and then launched what is now China’s biggest chain of Arabic restaurants – 1001 Nights, which has 2 branches in Beijing and more in Shanghai, Yiwu and Guangzhou. Dr Fakhour himself [...]

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