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Aqaba Red Sea Resort

ANYONE who thinks that young Arabs don’t know how to party hasn’t been to Aqaba during one of Jordan’s national holiday weekends. Here, in the Hashemite Kingdom’s southern speck of a port city, the beach scene along the sandy shores of the Gulf of Aqaba, an arm of the Red Sea, is an Ibiza-light...

Beirut Lebanon

Bordered on one side by the Mediterranean and on the other by two parallel mountain ranges, Lebanon seems a country suspended between the sky and the sea. Despite its small area (10,452 square km), this is a land resplendent in its diverse geography, landscape, culture and history. Lebanese cities are among...

Holy Land

As a location central to the beliefs of Christianity, Islam and Judaism, the Holyland has long been the destination of pilgrims the World over. Each city of the Holyland has its own flavor, its own identity: from the walled Old City of Jerusalem, its venerated holy sites the scene of divine messages and...

Syria

The Syria of today offers tourists as much a cultural experience as a sightseeing one, where ancient history provides a fascinatinbackdrop to everyday life on the streets. Part of the ancient caravan route, the 500-year old souqs (covered markets) present a riot of color and turmoil to the business of buying...

The Levant Region

The Levant Region Levant is an imprecisely defined region in the Middle East south of the Taurus Mountains, bounded by the Mediterranean Sea on the west, and by the northern Arabian Desert and Upper Mesopotamia to the east. The media would have you believe that the Levant is a volatile and unfriendly region;...
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