Husein Ibn Ali, made King of Hejaz by the British for fighting the Turks in the War, made Calif of Islam by no other than himself, opposed the heretical warriors of the Emir of Nejd; but he was ...

The Hejaz region has been under the rule of the Al Saud ever since, and in 1932 became a part of Ibn Sa’ud’s newly established Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. This article first appeared on the ...

This story appears in the July 2014 issue of National Geographic magazine. There are thousands of wells in the old Hejaz. We walk to them. Sometimes their water is sweet. More often it is salt. It ...

When the Ottomans took over Hejaz, they only created an administrative division (sanjak) in Jeddah, with the goal of monitoring Mecca, which remained self-governed by the Sharifs.

Brezhnev in the Hejaz. Mini Teaser: Saudi Arabia is the guardian of the Mideast counterrevolution—and America is its greatest enabler. A club of royals under the Kingdom’s protection is now a ...

That sparked the start of the Kingdom of Hejaz, which later became part of Saudi Arabia in 1932. Wednesday's attack follows on the heels of a stabbing on Oct. 29 that slightly wounded a guard at ...

Bilateral relations between Germany and Saudi Arabia were formalised as early as 1929, with the signing of the Treaty of Friendship between Germany and the Kingdom of Hejaz, Nejd and Dependencies ...