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Lives Between The Lines - A Journey in Search of the Lost Levant (Hardcover)
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Lives Between The Lines - A Journey in Search of the Lost Levant (Hardcover)
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The story begins with a parting of the sands - the construction of
the Suez Canal that united the Mediterranean with the Arabian Sea.
It opened the door of opportunity for people living insecurely on
the fringes of a turbulent Europe. The Middle East is understood
today through the lens of unending conflict and violence. Lost in
the litany of perpetual strife and struggle are the layers of
culture and civilisation that accumulated over centuries, and which
give the region its cosmopolitan identity. It was once a region
known poetically as the Levant - a reference to the East, where the
sun rose. Amid the bewildering mix of races, religions and
rivalries, was above all an affinity with the three monotheistic
religions: Judaism, Christianity and Islam. Today any mixing of
this trinity of faiths is regarded as a recipe for hatred and
prejudice. Yet it was not always this way. There was a time, in the
last century, when Arabs and Jews rubbed shoulders in bazaars and
teashops, worked and played together, intermarried and shared
family histories. Michael Vatikiotis's parents and grandparents
were a product of this forgotten pluralist tradition, which spanned
almost a century from the mid-1800s to the end of the Second World
War in 1945. The Ottoman empire, in a last gasp of reformist energy
before it collapsed in the 1920s, granted people of many creeds and
origins generous spaces to nestle into and thrive. The European
colonial order that followed was to reveal deep divisions.
Vatikiotis's family eventually found themselves caught between
clashing faiths and contested identity. Their story is of people
set adrift, who built new lives and prospered in holy lands, only
to be caught up in conflict and tossed on the waves of a violent
history. Lives Between the Lines brilliantly recreates a world
where the Middle East was a place to go to, not flee from, and the
subsequent start of a prolonged nightmare of suffering from which
the region has yet to recover.
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