We are all Levantines now 1 avril 2012
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Le Monde diplomatique – English edition (France) April 2012
by Philip Mansel *
The Levant, with its eastern Mediterranean trading cities that flourished thanks to the Franco-Ottoman alliance, was an economic and diplomatic experiment that pioneered a way of life all the world now understands. (suite…)