The long defunct rails littered with garbage are an integral part of the urban landscape of Amman. Once a day, a steam engine dating from the early 20th century ventures along the tracks; onboard its ...

Dr Ajaz Anwar remembers being told that he needed no visit visa because he was an “artiste”; boarding the train to Damascus, and the Arab hospitality Dr Ajaz Anwar’s painting of the mausoleum of ...

The Hejaz Railway was “a monumental feat of engineering and a triumph of Islamic financing over Western capital, and the last desperate act of modernity of a failing empire”, according to a British ...

This is the first part in series about travels in Saudi Arabia, along the line of the Hejaz railway. Several years ago, at a Lawrence of Arabia exhibition at Magdalen College in Oxford, England, I ...

At the historic Qadam station in Damascus, the Hejaz Railway Museum is preserving the memory of one of the Middle East’s most ambitious transport projects. It was established in 2008 to mark the ...

In a vast uncharted Arabian desert are sixteen different states.* Some of these countries move whenever their inhabitants decide to strike tents. Some, again, are half settled—that is to say, the ...

Curious heads along the curious streets of Jeddah, port of Mecca, craned to see Husein, abdicating King of Hejaz* and Calif of Islam (TIME, Oct. 13). It was announced that Husein would sail away—none ...