The driver and I chatted some, but mostly I looked out the window at the desert, studied my many maps (I had a Lawrence map from ... caught no glimpses of the Hejaz Railway, which had run farther ...

He highlighted the importance of the Hejaz Railway's involvement in putting Reheb on the map as a key tourist destination. Al-Harashah also pointed out that the area is home to 34 churches ...

Turkey will restore parts of the historic Hejaz Railway in Syria, reconnecting Turkish rail lines to Damascus, Turkish Transportation Minister Abdulkadir Uraloglu said on Tuesday during a meeting ...

AMMAN — 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 ...

Forty years ago a young Arab officer rode triumphantly up the old Hejaz railway beside Prince Feisal and Lawrence of Arabia toward the ancient desert capital of Amman. Last week, still pursuing ...