by Andrea Lewis Arpit Rastogi “…but this is a sea that patiently recreates for us scenes from the past, breathing new life into them…” — Fernand Braudel Memory and the Mediterranean 1. Where do you come from? I come from Lansdale, Pennsylvania, where I was born during a thunderstorm on a July night while my father was in Tripoli, Libya, at a U.S. Air Force base called Wheelus. I always loved the word Tripoli — derived from the Greek and Italian for three cities — and felt, fr