So what where you doing on September 11th, 2001? I was in the studio (Filmhouse) mixing something. I had a deadline to meet so I was a little peeved when people started running into the only room in the place with a TV that had a tuner. Half of FP7 ran in demanding I turn the news on. This I did, and I saw the smoke. The story unfolded and we all looked on. We were all upset. Immediately we grasped the implications. Karim was the first to run into the audio room. After watching the news he was trying to find out if Tarek was all right. Tarek was in NY and couldn't be reached. The comment I remember most clearly was from Adnan: "I wouldn't want to be an Arab in America right now." That turned out to be less of a problem than imagined - a testament to the basic welcoming nature of American people, although there were a few incidents. It turned out that being an Arab in America was safer for many than being an Arab in your own motherland. Some people were say