A separatist group has seized control of an oil-rich region in southern Yemen, threatening to reignite the country's civil ...

The Southern Transitional Council’s lightning offensive in the south could entrench Yemen’s de facto partition and risks rekindling the 10-year civil war ...

In a region long defined by conflict and cautious diplomacy, a quiet but potentially transformative project is underway: a ...

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

Mohammed Khoja’s fall 2026 “Hejaz Collection” was a poetic pilgrimage to the western Arabia region from which he hails. The show presented a sartorial tribute to a region long revered as a cradle of ...

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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 ...

Turkish Minister of transport and Infrastructure Abdulkadir Uraloglu said that Turkey, Syria and Jordan agreed an agreement to complete of a missing 30-kilometer portion of the historic Hejaz Railway ...

This 1491 map is the best surviving map of the world as Christopher Columbus knew it as he made his first voyage across the Atlantic. In fact, Columbus likely used a copy of it in planning his journey ...