Possible Clues:

• Raised from the ashes without crossing intelligence agency in old country
• Ancient civilisation in hope to turn foreign agents
• Ancient country extending from the Mediterranean Sea to the Lebanon Mountains
• Mobile phone and chemical company once — one in Dido's homeland
• Ancient civilization believed to have created the first alphabet
• Narrow coastal strip of Palestine in biblical times
• Ancient land of Sidon and Tyre
• Ancient Mediterranean region whose cities included Tyre and Carthage
• Lebanon, in ancient times
• Chap, one I transported across island in ancient land