William L. Ochsenwald
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LOCATION: Blacksburg, VA, United States
Professor of History, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, Blacksburg. Author of Religion, Society, and the State in Arabia.
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Lebanon, country consisting of a narrow strip of territory on the eastern shore of the Mediterranean Sea. It is one of the world’s smaller sovereign states. The capital is Beirut. Though Lebanon, particularly its coastal region, was the site of some of the oldest human settlements in the world—the…
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