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Ziyad Manasir (born December 1965) is a self-made Russian billionaire of Jordanian origin, best known as the founder of Stroygazconsulting, a major Moscow-based construction firm specializing in gas pipelines and infrastructure projects with longstanding contracts from Russia's state-owned Gazprom.

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Our story begins in 1966 when Ahmad and Ibrahim Ziyad founded Syrian Bakery & Grocery, Inc., a small retail outlet on the Southside of Chicago. They specialized in Artisanal hand-made pita bread and other bakery goods as well as a few, hard to find Middle Eastern products—it was the first Pita Bread bakery in Chicago!

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The Manasir or Monasir (Arabic: المناصير, romanized: al-Manāṣīr) are a Sudanese Arab tribe living in northern Sudan. Until the completion of the Merowe Dam in 2009 they inhabited the Fourth Cataract region along the Nile, which they called Dar al-Manasir.