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This is Al-Mashriq *, one of the Levant Cultural
Multimedia Servers - a repository of information from the Levant in
general and Lebanon in particular.
The AUB and Al-Mashriq servers are now mirrored at their respective home sites to provide faster local and international access. Highlights (Look for other items of interest under the categories in the left-hand collum.)
Lebanon - with facts and general information,
army, articles, constitution and law, ethnology, environment, history,
maps, news, places,pictures, politics, postcards, research, travel,
tourism, cyberleb, currency, weather.
Lebanon on Hold - Implications for Middle East Peace
Al Jadid - A Record of Arab Culture & Arts
Images, video
clips and my travelogue from the April War of
1996.
The
Fafo-reports - These reports
on the living conditions of Palestinian refugees in the Occupied
Territories and Lebanon, are examples of Fafo's strategic
research which has contributed to the peace process in the Middle
East.
Fairouz - Legend and Legacy
Food from the Arab World,
Marie Karam Khayat and Margaret Clark Keatinge. 130 recipes for good
food - mostly from Lebanon.
1000 photographs and a travelogue from Lebanon July - August, 1995 and April 1996
Images from the Past, a collection of
pictures and slides from the Levant of the late 1800's most of which were
taken by the Bonfils family of photographers.
Um
Kalthoum was born in 1904 and died in1975. She was unquestionably
the most gifted singer and musician of this century in the Middle
East. She was continuously popular for over 50 years and her songs are
still played nightly on any number of Arabic language radio stations.
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| * Al-Mashriq: the Levant - the countries bordering the eastern Mediterranean. | |
