so....... this is in Jerusalem

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The owner of the Heart of Dixie shop, Hani Imam, is a man of many trades from East Jerusalem. He fell for the Crimson Tide when he lived in Alabama from 1984 to 1994. Imam, now 35, especially remembers 1992, when Alabama won a previous national championship: "That was when Gene Stallings (was) head coach," he said. "We played Auburn, and we beat them all the time."

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When Imam returned to Jerusalem in 1994, he says he felt homesick for Alabama. "I really enjoyed country life," he said, the beautiful nature and the open spaces. When his father gave him the family business -- a walk-in-closet-sized souvenir shop wedged between the Jewish and Christian quarters of Jerusalem -- he named it the Heart of Dixie, he says, "to keep Alabama in my mind."

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