"Services are doing very well in places like the Gulf, " says Mrs Toukan.

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Virtually every local entrepreneur I meet, digital aficionado or not, knows the story by heart: two local Jordanians Samih Toukan and Hussam Khoury, bootstrap their way from consulting company to web developers, to an Arabic web email service.

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The visit to SESAME will feature meetings with the President of the SESAME Council, Professor Sir Chris Llewellyn Smith, the Director of SESAME Dr. Khaled Toukan, who is also Chairman of the Jordan Atomic Energy Commission as well as with the Administrative Director of SESAME, Professor Yasser Khalil.

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