Soon, Europeans were in control of all of North Africa and much of the Levant.
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Conventional theory, based on fossil evidence, suggests that this spread took place by land, via the Levant.
America and Israel want to end this war in a way that transforms the balance of power in the Levant.
The liberties he took with tradition and law prompted his expulsion from one Jewish community after another across the Levant.
One group, called the Al Nusrah Front for the People of the Levant, has claimed responsibility for suicide attacks in Syria.
Medieval recipe books show it was eaten in Egypt and the Levant (Palestine, Jordan, Syria and Lebanon) before spreading to Turkey, Greece and across the Mediterranean.
Perhaps the biggest current prize for al Qaeda is the Levant.
Further south down the coastline of the Levant Basin, the Gaza Marine field, 30km off the coast of the Palestinian territory, has long been known about.
Successful Kairos companies include the Levant Power Corporation, a shock absorber developer co-founded by Forbes 30 under 30 members Zack Anderson and Shakeel Avadhany.
Other evidence of symbolic behaviour in Neanderthals includes the discovery of ochre - used to paint their bodies - at archaeological sites in Europe and the Levant.
Moreover, the fiscal, monetary and macroeconomic effects will be significant as the Levant Basin, the area of the Leviathan and other fields, emerges as a source of energy exports.
That includes a tweet by a man with the handle Abu Suleiman al-Muhajer, whose bio identifies him as belonging to al Qaeda in the Levant, the umbrella organization for the al-Nusra Front.
In fact, increasingly, it seems to suggest that we need not be unduly concerned about its franchises in the Levant, Iraq and the Arabian Peninsula, just "core" al Qaeda.
The Nusra Front for the People of the Levant, a group analysts have identified as a jihadist movement, has taken responsibility for attacks in the capital of Damascus and other locations.
This week, ahead of Bush's trip, Absi surfaced alive with a videotape attacking the Lebanese army, calling for a jihadist takeover of the Levant and announcing his allegiance to Osama bin Laden.
Situated in waters between Israel, Lebanon, Syria and Cyprus, the Levant Basin boasted an estimated 122 trillion cubic feet of natural gas, offering a path to energy independence for much of the region.
Whereas modern Judaism celebrates the Jewish revolt against the Hellenised dynasty that ruled the Levant, Mr Abulafia prefers to focus on Alexandria, where there was a more productive symbiosis between Hellene and Hebrew.
According to a United States Geological Survey, the Levant Basin, shared by Lebanon, Israel and Cyprus, offers up about 122 trillion cubic feet in recoverable gas and an estimated 1.7 billion barrels of oil.
You couldn't ask for a more alarming declaration of noble intent than the authentically scraggly black beard Leonardo DiCaprio sports as Roger Ferris, CIA point man in Iraq, Syria, Jordan, Dubai and other spots in the Levant.
This small chunk of land in the highlands of the Levant is where Jesus started his ministry, where Abraham staked his claim on the land and where King Solomon lolled in his tent by shimmering pools of spring water.
This historically false, intuitively nutty assertion gave credence to the false Arab-Leftist narrative which argues that Israel's size, rather than the Arab world's refusal to accept a Jewish state in the Levant, is the cause of the Arab-Israeli conflict.
For all its economic worries at home and military woes in Iraq and Afghanistan, America is far from weak in the Levant, where both Israel and the nascent Palestine in the West Bank continue to depend on it in countless vital ways.
"I ask God to unite us in heaven and say to my brothers in the Arabian peninsula to fight in the name of God as your brothers in the Levant need fighters of strong faith and chivalry, " he said in a Saudi accent.
From information sharing deals with Egypt to possible downstream partnerships with Israel, Cyprus appears willing to work with just about anyone to help reach and extract the more than 122 trillion cubic feet of gas estimated to sit in the Levant Basin.
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Moreover, the chances are that it would evoke outrage throughout the Middle East (although Arab governments would privately rejoice at the event), and probably provoke an Iranian reaction that could involve a very large war as the Israelis are attacked by, and retaliate against, Iran's proxies in the Levant and throughout the world.
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Mr Hirst, the dean of foreign correspondents in Beirut after five decades in residence, begins his tale with Lebanon's creation in the wake of the first world war, as a French gift to the Maronite Christians of the coastal Levant who had long seen Paris and the Vatican as their saviours.
Based on other basins, current discoveries in the Israeli Levant Basin likely are only a fraction of the total technically recoverable resources.
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However, scientists think this interbreeding could have occurred outside Europe, in the eastern Mediterranean or Middle East region (the area archaeologists call the "Levant"), and quite probably even deeper in time - some 80, 000-90, 000 years or so ago.
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