TRIPOLI THROUGH AGES

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This volume on Tripoli brings to an end the series of books on Lebanon’s ancient coastal cities, which the author set out to write more than a decade ago. Unlike Lebanon’s other archaeological sites which until recently lay buried in ruins, Tripoli (medieval Tarabulus) has flourished and lived on through the centuries until the present time. The Mamlouk quarters of the old city teem today with people and activity just as they did in the days of Aboul-Abbas Al-qalqachamdi and in this constant between the old and the new lies the charm of Tripoli, “Thau-cities-in-one.”