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www.saudiaramcoworld.com"Yes, because unlike all other rivers in the Crescent, which flow south, the Orontes flows north—an oddity explained by the slope of the Great Rift. A volcanic cleft in the earth running from the Great Lakes of East Africa via the Red Sea to Lebanon, the Great Rift tips imperceptibly at just the point where the Orontes begins to move and spills the small stream northward on a course 300 miles long and crowded with geological as well as historical paradoxes."