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De Borchgrave, Rupert

 
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Lost Levant is the chronicle of a journey through the Eastern Mediterranean region in 2003, woven into an intellectual quest for universal humanism and a philosophy of liberation. Against the backdrop of the Second Iraq War, the narrator travels from London to Mount Ararat, writing up his encounters along the way in a series of vignettes which echo the tradition of ancient epics from The Odyssey to The Epic of Gilgamesh, and which frame the journey as a modern pilgrimage through lands steeped in history and cultural significance. The journey also becomes a backdrop for a set of essays in which the author visits ancient sites and ideas, applying a modern lens to topics such as theology, politics and economics.

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Rupert de Borchgrave has been variously an applied statistician, securities analyst researching the Middle East and Africa, economic advisor, emerging markets investor and, currently, manager of a technology fund. He studied Psychology at Oxford University, then Philosophy at Birkbeck College and Economics at SOAS. Lost Levant is his first book.

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