The Aqaba paradigm: a shared oasis. (Gulf of Aqaba)

World Watch | November 1, 1993| | Copyright

The Middle East, as a region, is home to what historians call an "oasis civilization." Since biblical times, rich cultures have flourished along the fertile banks of the Nile, Jordan, Tigris, and Euphrates rivers. But oases are defined by the shifting sands that surround them. Only because the Arabs and Jews had wandered for decades in the dunes did their Promised Lands seem truly to flow with milk and honey. If all cultures bear the stamp of their geographical landscape, oasis civilizations reflect less the fecundity of river valleys than the dry heat and wide-open spaces of ...

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