Andrew Lycett

The cosmopolitan spirit of the Middle East vanished with the Ottomans

Michael Vatikiotis feels nostalgia for the old Levant, where his Italian Jewish and Greek Orthodox forebears could mix freely and prosper

A café in Cairo c.1900. [Getty Images]
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  • Lives Between the Lines: A Journey in Search of the Lost Levant

    Michael Vatikiotis

    Weidenfeld & Nicolson, pp. 286, £20

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