Rev. papers from the Conference on Tribes and State Formation in the Middle East sponsored by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Harvard University, held in Cambridge, Mass., in Nov. 1987.

The Bnei Menashe community from northeast India, who claim descent from a lost tribe of Israel, will be resettled in Israel ...

Before Islam reshaped the Middle East, vast kingdoms, merchant empires, and warrior tribes ruled the sands. From the Nabataeans to the Sassanids, these powers fought for dominance over trade routes ...

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