Title: Mosaic
Review: The Levant consists of the Middle Eastern areas of Syria, Lebanon, Jordan, Israel, Gaza, & the West Bank. It is one of the most important areas in the world per square foot/meter, so it's important to try to achieve a real understanding of it, rather than just adopt slogans & this book will help.The Levant seems more like a jigsaw puzzle than a mosaic, but with this book [plus consulting Wikipedia etc] we can begin to pick up the pieces & put them together. It begins with the Roman period & continues until the "present". Depending on which edition of the book you have, this could be 2002/3 [before the US invasion of Iraq] or 2005.A drawback to the book is that there is no overall index, just an index of names. There also are useful lists of political movements, dynasties,, tribes, religious & ethnic groups.I recommend skipping over chapter 1 at first, reading it later as a summary.
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