From Phoenician Partnership and Mediterranean Exchange to Imperial Conquest, Sectarian Rivalry, and the Continuing Struggle for Cooperation By Sasha Alex Lessin, Ph.D. (Anthropology, U.C.L.A.) LEBANON: CROSSROADS IN THE CROSSHAIRS OF ISRAEL AND IRAN Along the eastern Mediterranean shore, mountains rise behind a narrow coastal plain. Cedar forests once covered much of the high country. Natural …
