d. ♪ ♪ karinda: christopher am started in beirut. how did you end up in the uae?her refused to me in joining the business. i asked him how come? if anyone should take over the business, it should be me. he told me if i was going to join him in lebanon, i would only learn the same mistakes he did and copy what he had done. to get fresh ideas. i thought it would be a good idea to continue my education at the time because he had done his masters and i wanted to do that as well. right before i had to go to new york, i went to dubai and it was being built from the ground up. i told myself -- why would i want to go to new york where the city is already built, if i could go back in time and see a city being built from scratch. haslinda: he said opera -- you said that opportunities were falling from the sky. christopher: it was still there barren. it was not fully filled. it was not occupied. i saw a place for me to answer a market from the beginning. one of the hardest things is market penetration. that gave me a big step over my competitors to start. that is how we were