"The Middle East conflict becomes very real when you know the faces on the ground," says John Musselman. The places John Musselman has called "home" are ones that most Americans know only through newspaper headlines. When John was a baby, his father's job took the family to Khartoum, Sudan. John learned Arabic as a kindergartener in the West Bank and, some years later, as a high school junior in Jordan, had to recover his mastery of the language.