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 ...

AMMAN — Thousands of Jordanian Muslims returned this week from Mecca after undertaking the greater pilgrimage known as Hajj. While Saudi Arabia is now a mere one hour flight away from Amman, for 14 ...

In January 2023, I travelled to Hijaz to perform the minor Islamic pilgrimage, or Umrah, and then made my way south to visit the southern provinces of Saudi Arabia. The plan was to follow the Sarawat ...

Today, a lack of passengers and improved highways may kill off the Hijaz line once and for all, a quiet demise for a train that entered popular imagination, thanks to Lawrence’s war exploits later ...

The line that was built from Damascus, Syria, to Madinah, Saudi Arabia, is a fascinating part of Hijazi history. Sultan Abdul Hamid II put great effort into modernizing transportation and ...

Born in Jeddah, Sarah Mohanna Al Abdali hails from a family with a rich Hijazi history and has grown up with a deep appreciation of the land, architecture, and heritage of the coastal region of Saudi ...

A rare look into the life of King Abdulaziz al-Saud was published by an early 20th century Arab journalist and traveler. Egyptian journalist Mohammed Shafiq Effendi travelled through Saudi Arabia - or ...

The Hijaz, in the west of present-day Saudi Arabia, was the first Islamic state in Mecca and Medina. In his book, The Hijaz: The First Islamic State by Professor Malik Dahlan from Queen Mary’s School ...