Taleb Abidali and Hossein Mousavi

Hossein Mousavi: The business partners behind Cresco are Hossein Mousavi, an Iranian who once drove cabs in Halifax before turning to building houses, and Taleb Abidali, an Iraqi son of a house builder and a former school principal, according to The Chronicle Herald. Only in Nova Scotia could this happen, said Abidali, who joined the business about five years after Mousavi started it in 1989 and Throw a dart at a map of major residential developments in the Halifax region and it will likely land on a project linked to Bedfords Cresco Developments Ltd. It would be an unlikely alliance in their homelands, but here they are marking the 25th anniversary of the business. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.