An employee taken hostage. Shuttered offices. Boycotts and protests: Global companies like PepsiCo are caught in the middle ...

In South Paterson, home to a large Arab American community ... and now Coca-Cola and Pepsi. The beverage behemoths are not on the official list of the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions movement ...

So, if not Coca-Cola or Pepsi, what to drink ... It's a similar story in other places in the Arab world, and sometimes beyond. In Qatar, the Abu Issa company manufactures a line of soft drinks ...