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christianity avoiding near east trip

december 2008

with not much time, but with a major itch for something else, something new, something other,

I travelled to Europe's great Other, that exotic source of civilization and trouble,

known as Phoenicia, the Levant, or simply the Near East: I went to Syria and Lebanon.

Syria: Damascus - Palmyra - Hama - Aleppo - (into:)

Lebanon: Tripoli - Beirut (daytripping to) - Baalbek - Tyre - Byblos - (into:)

Syria: Damascus