A Note About the Author: Robert W. Lebling
Bob Lebling is a writer/editor and corporate communications specialist. He currently heads the website team for Saudi Aramco's Public Relations Department. A graduate of Princeton University, he studied politics, anthropology, languages and creative writing, among other subjects.
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Natural Remedies of Arabia
Whether you are in Doha, Dubai, Manama, Salalah, Jiddah or an obscure country village, when you step into an herbal medicine shop or wander through the traditional suqs (markets), you will find vendors of herbs, spices, bark, twigs, rocks and salt intended for culinary, cosmetic or medicinal purposes.
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Deciphering Pennsylvania's Susquehanna Stones
Are the inscriptions evidence of an ancient Phoenician settlement in the Americas or are they just random markings?
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Dos Passos in the Desert
On a cold December morning in 1921, a battered Model-T Ford chugged into
Ramadi, a town on the west bank of the Euphrates in British-mandate Iraq.
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Tracking the Golden Chain
"If all the gold that is buried in Peru ... were collected, it would be impossible
to coin it, so great the quantity; and yet the Spaniards of the conquest got
very little, compared with what remains…."
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Review of The Unfurling - Saudi Aramco World
Western readers with preconceived notions about what it means to be a woman in today’s Saudi Arabia will find this book an eye-opener.
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WTC
Robert Lebling reflects on the World Trade Center tragedy "in the fragile gaps between thoughts."
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The Pirates of St. Tropez
Under cover of darkness, they beached their small, lateen-rigged sailing vessel on the rocky shore and began the slow, silent climb to the manor house on the hill.
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The Treasure of Tarthuth
It is early spring in the Dahna, Saudi Arabia's northeastern sand desert.