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  • Oryx walk the sands of Saudi’s NEOM for the first time in 100 years

    Saudi Arabia has returned endangered oryx to the desert in NEOM - the Kingdom’s flagship business and tourism development in the Red Sea - for the first time on 100 years. The oryx - alongside three other species; ibex, sand gazelles and mountain gazelle - arrived from the National Center for Wildlife in Riyadh in late October.

  • Oryx walk the sands of Neom after nearly 100 years, nature reserve official says

    Saudi Arabia has returned oryx, ibex, sand gazelles and mountain gazelles to the desert in Neom. The animals arrived from the National Centre for Wildlife in Riyadh in late October. After spending time in special pens to acclimatise to their new environment, the animals were released into the nature reserve.

  • Bahrain
    Bahrain records hottest June in more than 100 years

    Bahrain has recorded temperatures that make the month of June the hottest ever experienced in the Arab Gulf country in more than a century. Summers in the Arabian Peninsula are consistently hot and humid, with people bunkering indoors for the better part of at least five months. The Bahrain News Agency’s report on Tuesday, however, shows temperatures are soaring even higher.

  • Desalination
    How did Israel and Saudi Arabia survive one of the driest periods in the last 1000 years?

    While withdrawal from non-renewable aquifers also bumps up these rates, desalination is one of the most significant contributors to domestic water resources in both Israel and Saudi Arabia, supplying over 50% of the domestic water in both countries with roughly 600 million cubic meters in Israel and over 1 billion cubic meters annually in Saudi Arabia.

  • Eid Al-Adha
    This was how Saudi Arabia announced Eid 100 years ago

    With no radio or telegraph and in a country as big as Saudi Arabia, camel riders did their best to race to inform people about Eid’s timings, but sometimes it was not possible to announce it uniformly, leaving a gap and sometimes days when each village celebrated Eid.

  • Sykes-Picot
    The Lines That Bind: 100 Years of Sykes-Picot

    Most of these states are now under considerable demographic, economic, and political stress, which has led some analysts to predict eventual collapse of at least some of them.

  • Fashion
    Watch 100 years of hijabi fashion in less than a minute

    Although wearing a hijab is an act of devotion in a religious sense, the sheer variety of styles and looks over the century make it an important part of fashion in the region.