The Middle East and North Africa, which are dominated by the situation in Iraq, and violence in the occupied Palestinian territory.

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The 6-foot-5, 308-pound Aboushi is the ninth of 10 children born in Brooklyn to Palestinian parents who came to the U.S. from the town of Beit Hanina in the occupied territory of the West Bank.

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