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When Fadi Jaber, a Palestinian who attended high school, in Saudi Arabia, tasted a cupcake from a New York bakery, it changed his life. He quit his marketing job and enrolled in culinary school.. Now, Jaber has brought the cupcake craze to the Middle East with his Sugar Daddy's shops in Amman, Jordan; Beirut, Lebanon; and Dubai, United Arab Emirates. Jaber, 31, says 95 percent of his customers are women, many of them familiar with cupcakes from watching Sex in the City on satellite TV. Sugar Daddy's sells American favorites...