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Lives Between the Lines

A Journey in Search of the Lost Levant

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Lives Between the Lines

By: Michael Vatikiotis
Narrated by: Michael Vatikiotis
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In Lives Between the Lines, Michael Vatikiotis traces the journey of his Greek and Italian forebears from Tuscany, Crete, Hydra and Rhodes, as they made their way to Egypt and the coast of Palestine in search of opportunity. In the process, he reveals a period where the Middle East was a place of ethnic and cultural harmony—where Arabs and Jews rubbed shoulders in bazaars and teashops, intermarried and shared family history.

While lines were eventually drawn and people, including Vatikiotis's family, found themselves caught between clashing faiths, contested identities and violent conflict, this intimate and sweeping memoir is a paean to tolerance, offering a nuanced understanding of the lost Levant.

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©2021 Michael Vatikiotis (P)2021 Orion Publishing Group Cultural & Regional Islam Middle East Middle Ages Africa Imperialism Iran Italy Crusade
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This was initially an interesting listen which combines family and wider history .However, it was somewhat spoiled by the latter half which becomes too polemical and opinionated. The author also seems to contradict himself about the issue of religious tolerance in the Ottoman Empire

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