Robert W. Lebling

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Robert W. Lebling is a writer/editor, communication specialist/consultant and book author. He has extensive experience in Middle East affairs, Arab and Islamic society and culture, energy (oil & gas), the chemical/petrochemical industry, technology, environment, U.S. politics and government, and foreign affairs.

Lebling, who was born in Bethesda, Maryland, USA, holds a Bachelor of Arts Degree in Political Science and Certificate in Anthropology from Princeton University. He pursued graduate studies toward a Master of Arts Degree in Political Science at the University of Chicago. He served in the U.S. Army with overseas duty in the Caribbean. As a journalist in Washington, D.C., he covered the White House, Congress, State Department and Pentagon. He also worked as a reporter, editor and foreign correspondent in Egypt, Lebanon, the United Kingdom, and Saudi Arabia.

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Arabian archers in the Roman army had a surprising impact on the evolution of writing in ancient Germany at the dawn of our Common Era (AD). The old Germanic alphabet, known as runes – bolstered with letters from the language of the Arabian Nabateans – has survived to the present day, appearing in fantasy tales like The Lord of the Rings and Harry Potter, and in an array of modern video games. Most people know the story of the incursion of Arab military forces into Europe that began in 711 AD. The Arabian Muslim troops, who had crossed North Africa and entered into Spain from Morocco, were eventually halted by indigenous Spaniards, and gradually driven back southward over the course