The relationship between "the Arab Levant" and "the world," in modern times, has not been a friendly one. “The world," here, refers the West and its states- that is, the Atlantic World, while "the ...

The Byzantine Empire in the 7th century was wrecked by military strife. The empire was halved, with its richest territories ...

launches a full-scale invasion of the Byzantine Empire. For twenty-five years, a relentless back-and-forth of blitzkrieg campaigns and counteroffensives devastates Anatolia, the Levant ...

Political, economic, and security trends in Egypt, Israel and Palestine, Syria, Lebanon, and Jordan Syria’s decade-long conflict continues to destabilize the Levant. Syria remains an arena for proxy ...

Bennett, 1971-1980 OPEN ACCESS 2002 Crossing the Rift: Resources, Settlements Patterns and Interaction in the Wadi Arabah OPEN ACCESS 2006 Culture, Chronology and the Chalcolithic OPEN ACCESS 2011 The ...

Temples in the Southern Levant during the Persian Empire (c. 539–331 BCE) provide a vital, underutilized historical vista for such questions. Persian involvement with labor taxation, forced labor, and ...