Following the bitter objections of the "Shiite Duo" to Dr. Nawaf Salam’s designation as prime minister, he is seeking to reassure them by stressing that he has two choices: "accommodation" or ...

They never developed a unified state or empire, but had independent city-states in the northern coastal Levant, of which Byblos, Tyre, and Sidon were the most important. A number of ancient texts ...

The countries beyond the Jordan include Moab, Ammon, Edom, and Nabatean Arabia. And in the north are Tyre and Sidon, cities of the Phoenicians. Jesus’ audience are a mixture of Jews and pagans. The ...

The Phoenicians were Semitic-speaking people who primarily inhabited several coastal cities in the Levant: Byblos, Tyre, Arvad, Berytus (Beirut), and Sidon. There was no Phoenician empire or ...

Lebanese volunteers are anxious to get back to sea turtle conservation on southern beaches that were off-limits to civilians ...

He spoke of the enduring Christian presence across the region -- from the cedars of Lebanon to the olive trees of Idlib, from the ancient cities of Tyre and Sidon to the iconic landmarks of Baalbek ...

The 1969 Cairo Agreement granted Palestinians the right to bear arms and launch military operations from southern Lebanon into occupied Palestine to liberate their land, marking the first significant ...

Esarhaddon Prisms A and B refer to Tyre's neighbor, the Phoenician coastal city-state Sidon as a "fortress town, which lied in the midst of the sea." Also, Prism B includes Tyre in a list of cities ...

or who clung with precarious footing to the sea-shore of Philistia and the rocky steeps of Tyre and Sidon,—these were seafarers. From them their Greek offshoots, the Ionian islanders ...