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MEMORY, PLACE, AND LANDSCAPE IN ROMAN SYRIA: THE VIEW FROM THE SANCTUARIES OF MOUNT LEBANON∗

Newson, Paul (Blackwell Publishing Ltd, 2019)

The creation of memory and place within landscapes has received considerable critical attention in archaeology in recent years, with a focus on power relations, social cohesion, and social memory. As yet, such notions have ...
New Data on Plant Use in the Eastern Sahara: The Macro-Remain Assemblage from Sheikh el-Obeiyid Villages and Bir el-Obeiyid Playa, Farafra Oasis, Egyptian Western Desert

Attia, Elshafaey Abdellatif Elshafaey; Malleson, Claire; Fahmy, Ahmed Gamal El Din; Lucarini, Giulio (Brill Nijhoff, 2021)

This article discusses archaeobotanical evidence from two Sheikh el-Obeiyid villages and the Bir el-Obeiyid playa, which are located along the course of the Wadi el-Obeiyid and on the top and escarpment of the Northern ...
New evidence for Middle Bronze Age chronology and synchronisms in the Levant: Radiocarbon dates from Tell el-Burak, Tell el-Dab'a, and Tel Ifshar compared

Höflmayer, Felix; Kamlah, Jens; Sader, Hélène; Dee, Michael W.; Kutschera, Walter; Wild, Eva Maria; Riehl, Simone (American Schools of Oriental Research, 2016)

We report a set of radiocarbon data for the Middle Bronze Age monumental building at Tell elBurak in Lebanon, dating it to the 19th century b.c., and summarize the relevant archaeological information concerning the ...
On the Meanings of Crisis

Khuri-Makdisi, Ilham (Duke University Press, 2023)
On the Road to the Abode of Felicity: Observations of a Damascene Scholar in Anatolia and Istanbul in 1530

Abu Hussein, Tarek; Abu-Husayn, Abdul Rahim (Arab Center for Research and Policy Studies, 2017-08)

This paper explores the journey of Damascene scholar Mohammed Badreddin al-Ghazi in the wake of the Ottoman conquest of the Bilad al-Sham (1530). His account gains its historical significance from the description of the ...
Phoenician lime for Phoenician wine: Iron Age plaster from a wine press at Tell el-Burak, Lebanon

Orsingher, Adriano; Amicone, Silvia; Kamlah, Jens; Sader, Hélène; Berthold, Christoph (Cambridge University Press, 2020)

Despite the importance of wine in the Iron Age Mediterranean, known structures associated with its production are rare. Recent excavations at Phoenician Tell el-Burak have now revealed the first Iron Age wine press in ...
PHOENICIAN RELIGION IN THE HOMELAND: New Insights from Recent Archaeological Discoveries

Sader, Hélène (Penn State University Press, 2023)

The article argues that there is one Phoenician religion and one Phoenician pantheon in spite of the fact that there was no such thing as a Phoenician “state” or “nation.” It also argues that in the absence of Phoenician ...
Post-conflict ethics, archaeology and archaeological heritage: a call for discussion

Newson, Paul; Ruth Young, Ruth L. (Cambridge University Press, 2022)

Ethics are fundamentally important to all forms of archaeological theory and practice and are embedded within many professional codes of conduct. The ethics of archaeological engagement with conflicts around the world have ...
Problems in the ottoman administration in syria during the 16th and 17th centuries: The case of the sanjak of sidon-beirut

Abu-Husayn, Abdul Rahim (Cambridge University Press, 1992)

The history of the mountain hinterland of Sidon and Beirut—the area often referred to as the Druze Mountain—has hitherto been treated mainly as parochial Lebanese history, with inadequate reference to the Ottoman administrative ...
Queens, Eunuchs and Concubines in Islamic History, 661-1257. By TAEF EL-AZHARI. Edinburgh: EDINBURGH UNIVERSITY PRESS, 2019. Pp. xix + 449. $140, £90

El-Cheikh, Nadia Maria (Lockwood Press, 2021)
Radiocarbon evidence for the early Bronze Age Levant: The site of tell Fadous-Kfarabida (Lebanon) and the end of the early bronze III period

Höflmayer, Felix; Dee, Michael W.; Genz, Hermann; Riehl, Simone (University of Arizona, 2014)

Absolute dates for the end of the Early Bronze Age ancient Near East are of crucial importance for assessing the nature and extent of mid- to late 3rd millennium BC transitions in the Near East and their alleged link to ...
Recent early bronze age glyptic finds from lebanon: The evidence from tell fadous-kfarabida

Genz, Hermann; Ahrens, Alexander (University of Chicago Press, 2021)

While Early Bronze Age glyptic finds from the southern Levant as well as from Syria have received considerable attention in the scholarly literature, unfortunately the same cannot be said about the glyptic material from ...
Revisiting al-Tabarī on Maqtal 'Alī ibn Abī Tālib: An Early Report from Historical Learning to Practical Prescription

El Ali, Mariam Saeed (Brill Academic Publishers, 2022)

This paper examines the report (khabar) that relates the reasons behind the killing of 'Alī ibn Abī Tālib (d. 40/661), as transmitted in the famous History of al-Tabarī (d. 310/923), exploring its historical, poetical, and ...
Sailing the modern episteme: Al-Ṭahṭāwī on the Mediterranean

Wick, Alexis (Duke University Press, 2014)

The invention of the Mediterranean as a coherent analytical concept dates back to early nineteenth-century Europe, just as the new academic disciplines of history, geography, and Orientalism were being institutionalized, ...
Simple bone tools from Early Bronze Age Tell Fadous-Kfarabida (Lebanon): a household approach

Genz, Hermann (Taylor and Francis Ltd., 2016)

Despite their relatively limited scale, the excavations conducted at the site of Tell Fadous Kfarabida on the Lebanese coast between 2004 and 2015 have provided a large and surprisingly varied assemblage of objects made ...
The consequences of Roman Imperialism: Cultural change in the Basalt Region of Homs, Syria

Newson, Paul (Maney Publishing, 2015)

The subject of this paper is the impact of Roman Imperialism on the rural environment of Syria. It was formerly assumed that the cultures of the Near East had already been subject to a long period of Greek cultural influence, ...
The crisis of the academic humanities in the Arab world

Dallal, Ahmad S. (Duke University Press, 2017)

Available evidence suggests that the crisis of the humanities is more critical in the Arab world than it is in the West. This article provides a provisional sketch of the state of arts and humanities scholarship within ...
Threatened North African seagrass meadows have supported green turtle populations for millennia

de Kock, Willemien; Mackie, Meaghan; Ramsøe, Max; Allentoft, Morten Erik; Broderick, Annette Cameron; Haywood, Julia C.; Godley, Brendan J.; Snape, Robin Thomas Ernest; Bradshaw, Phil J.; Genz, Hermann; von Tersch, Matthew; Dee, Michael W.; Palsboll, Per Jakob; Alexander, Michelle M.; Taurozzi, Alberto John; Çakirlar, Canan (National Academy of Sciences, 2023)

“Protect and restore ecosystems and biodiversity” is the second official aim of the current UN Ocean Decade (2021 to 2030) calling for the identification and protection of critical marine habitats. However, data to inform ...
Unlearning in Beirut

McGreevy, Patrick (University of Akron, 2016)
View from the Seas: The Middle East and North Africa Unbounded: History, Geography, and the Sea

Wick, Alexis (Cambridge University Press, 2016)

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