Dammam

Saudi, partner!

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May 13th 2022
By this point in the prolonged journey, I was roughly 5 or so weeks in, and still no signs of homesickness - I suspect that's what you get when you are able to call anywhere home. Home therefore was, at this point in life, a hotel in Jeddah, the nation's second city, and located in the southern part of Saudi Arabia, a nation long known as an oil-rich country with a few strict and conservative guid ... read more

Middle East » Saudi Arabia

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In 1902, ABD AL-AZIZ bin Abd al-Rahman Al Saud captured Riyadh and set out on a 30-year campaign to unify the Arabian Peninsula. A son of ABD AL-AZIZ rules the country today, and the country's Basic Law stipulates that the throne shall remain in the ... ... read more