A corrupt alliance between #Wahhabi clerics and #AbdulazizBinAbdulRahmanAlSaud (#IbnSaud) saw him rise from Emir to King of #Najd, and on #ThisDayInHistory 1926 with conquest of a UK puppet, to King of #Hejaz. In 1936 this became Kingdom of #SaudiArabia where his son still rules.
#Türkiye, #Syria and #Jordan have agreed to revive the historic #Hejaz railway line. [...] Originally constructed between 1900 and 1908 under Ottoman Sultan Abdulhamid II, the Hejaz railway line stretched approximately 1,750 kilometers, linking Istanbul to the Islamic holy cities of Mecca and […]
Tracks of Time: Turkey, Syria and Jordan Move to Revive the Hejaz Railway
#Turkey #Syria #Jordan #Hejaz
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Despite being born in the #Najd region in the #ArabianPeninsula, my #Arabic is more akin to the #Hejazi than #Nadji.
That, and compared to #MSA (Modern Saudi Arabic) which I don't completely understand, conversationally speaking, I understand #Levantine (i.e. #Palestine🍉) Arabic better.
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#Hejaz
More than 1,300 Hajj pilgrims died this year when humidity and heat pushed past survivable limits. It’s just the start www.downtoearth.org.in/climate-chan... via #Capitalism💀#ClimateCrisis #SevereWeather #Wetbulb #Heatwave #Heatstroke #Pilgrims #Hajj #Mecca #Hejaz #SaudiArabia
Return to my long-neglected project "The Arab Revolt and the #Ottoman #Hejaz Campaign". Photo of Sharif Hussein with Ronald Storrs taken in #Jeddah on 5 May 1917. Storrs gave the date wrong. Of course, caricature is providing better understanding of the meeting. #FWW
The ache of burning distances. Instant cities. Ancient pilgrim trails grooved into solid rock by millions of human and camel feet—yet fading and unwalked for generations.
A glimpse back at hiking 700 miles through the #Hejaz desert of #SaudiArabia. https://t.co/EASvMEOYxv
The ache of burning distances. Instant cities. Ancient pilgrim trails grooved into solid rock by millions of human and camel feet—yet fading and unwalked for generations.
A glimpse back at hiking 700 miles through the #Hejaz desert of #SaudiArabia. https://t.co/EASvMEOYxv
Ten winters ago on the @outofedenwalk. Crossing the #Hejaz desert of Saudi Arabia with Ali al Harbi, Awad Omran, Manal Himidan—and the cargo camels Fares & Seema. #EdenWalk
Ten winters ago on the @outofedenwalk. Crossing the #Hejaz desert of Saudi Arabia with Ali al Harbi, Awad Omran, Manal Himidan—and the cargo camels Fares & Seema. #EdenWalk
"The dawn has bestowed on us its camphor, after the night has claimed back its ambergris." - Ibn Ammar of Silves, 11th C. Ten years ago: Early light in the Jabal Radwa of the #Hejaz desert, #SaudiArabia. With Awad al Omri & Ali al Harbi (@lllalilll). https://t.co/hBusrsY9AP
"The dawn has bestowed on us its camphor, after the night has claimed back its ambergris." - Ibn Ammar of Silves, 11th C. Ten years ago: Early light in the Jabal Radwa of the #Hejaz desert, #SaudiArabia. With Awad al Omri & Ali al Harbi (@lllalilll). https://t.co/hBusrsY9AP
Nine years ago today on the @outofedenwalk I recorded my 16th Milestone (100-mile marker) while tottering out of the #Hejaz desert of #SaudiArabia & into #Jordan along the Gulf of Aqaba. No one was around to celebrate. @InsideNatGeo Milestone 16: Exit https://t.co/Aqw3gUCwjm
Nine years ago today on the @outofedenwalk I recorded my 16th Milestone (100-mile marker) while tottering out of the #Hejaz desert of #SaudiArabia & into #Jordan along the Gulf of Aqaba. No one was around to celebrate. @InsideNatGeo Milestone 16: Exit https://t.co/Aqw3gUCwjm
I was talking to a friend recently about pastoral lifeways, about the comfort of living with large animals, when I recalled a lesson from walking through #SaudiArabia: Always air-dry your camel after washing it, or it shrinks. @outofedenwalk #Camels #Hejaz https://t.co/xhZF3isDoa
I was talking to a friend recently about pastoral lifeways, about the comfort of living with large animals, when I recalled a lesson from walking through #SaudiArabia: Always air-dry your camel after washing it, or it shrinks. @outofedenwalk #Camels #Hejaz https://t.co/xhZF3isDoa
When @lllalilll & I trekked the #Hejaz desert of #SaudiArabia, we detoured to Al-Ula—an old pilgrim’s stop abandoned to time & sand. Here, Ali writes about how even such remote waypoints can change. Today, it’s a major cultural tourism site. @tezar_ksa 1/ https://tezar.sa/archives/35434
When @lllalilll & I trekked the #Hejaz desert of #SaudiArabia, we detoured to Al-Ula—an old pilgrim’s stop abandoned to time & sand. Here, Ali writes about how even such remote waypoints can change. Today, it’s a major cultural tourism site. @tezar_ksa 1/ https://tezar.sa/archives/35434
“It is said that if you wish to discover who is a true friend, travel with them.” Walking partner—and brother—@lllalilll writes another moving recollection of our trek across the bone-colored #Hejaz desert in #SaudiArabia. @outofedenwalk @tezar_ksa 1/4 http://tezar.sa/archives/35320
“It is said that if you wish to discover who is a true friend, travel with them.” Walking partner—and brother—@lllalilll writes another moving recollection of our trek across the bone-colored #Hejaz desert in #SaudiArabia. @outofedenwalk @tezar_ksa 1/4 http://tezar.sa/archives/35320
Walking partner Ali Al Harbi (@lllalilll) continues his wry dispatches about walking the #Hejaz desert of #SaudiArabia on the @outofedenwalk. This one laments the perils of riding a passive-aggressive camel & drinking cold Pepsi in 120 F heat. @tezar_ksa https://tezar.sa/archives/35070
Walking partner Ali Al Harbi (@lllalilll) continues his wry dispatches about walking the #Hejaz desert of #SaudiArabia on the @outofedenwalk. This one laments the perils of riding a passive-aggressive camel & drinking cold Pepsi in 120 F heat. @tezar_ksa https://tezar.sa/archives/35070
“I know that you are a little crazy and love strange things…Do you want to accompany him?” Walking partner @lllalilll tells how he left a media job in an air conditioned office to walk—and steer a camel—across the #hejaz desert of #SaudiArabia. #EdenWalk https://tezar.sa/archives/34714
“I know that you are a little crazy and love strange things…Do you want to accompany him?” Walking partner @lllalilll tells how he left a media job in an air conditioned office to walk—and steer a camel—across the #hejaz desert of #SaudiArabia. #EdenWalk https://tezar.sa/archives/34714
A summary of the @outofedenwalk by #Saudi walking partner Ali Al Harbi (@lllalilll), who traversed the #Hejaz desert with me in 2013. #EdenWalk #walkingdeserts https://tezar.sa/archives/34714
A summary of the @outofedenwalk by #Saudi walking partner Ali Al Harbi (@lllalilll), who traversed the #Hejaz desert with me in 2013. #EdenWalk #walkingdeserts https://tezar.sa/archives/34714
Walking partner Ali Al-Harbi (@lllalilll) describes the almost mystical power of #Arabic coffee in sustaining our 1200km/720mi trek through the vast, operatic spaces of the #Hejaz desert of #SaudiArabia. @tezar_ksa #coffee #EdenWalk 1/2 https://tezar.sa/archives/34586
Walking partner Ali Al-Harbi (@lllalilll) describes the almost mystical power of #Arabic coffee in sustaining our 1200km/720mi trek through the vast, operatic spaces of the #Hejaz desert of #SaudiArabia. @tezar_ksa #coffee #EdenWalk 1/2 https://tezar.sa/archives/34586
Rare photo, shot by a french pilot in 1927, of one of the last pilgrim caravans crossing the vast #Hejaz desert to Mecca, #SaudiArabia. Big camel caravans fired cannons to signal the day's start. Pic shared by @lllalilll, who walked 900 kms in the Hejaz with me. #EdenWalk 1/5
Rare photo, shot by a french pilot in 1927, of one of the last pilgrim caravans crossing the vast #Hejaz desert to Mecca, #SaudiArabia. Big camel caravans fired cannons to signal the day's start. Pic shared by @lllalilll, who walked 900 kms in the Hejaz with me. #EdenWalk 1/5
