Wars, ideologies, and exile gradually swept away the cosmopolitan Levant. Those born Ottoman became strangers in their own world. This is the story of a slow death.
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The Levantine mosaic is made up of a thousand colors. From Smyrna to Alexandria, Arabs, Greeks,...
Where the land ends, the water begins — a constantly shifting world that advances and retreats,...
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