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.

MELBOURNE, Australia, April 9, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- Hejaz, Australia's leading Islamic financial services provider, has secured a €100 million funding facility from a UAE-based private wealth group.

This story appears in the July 2014 issue of National Geographic magazine. On assignment in the Hejaz, in western Saudi Arabia, Stanmeyer often felt caught in a time warp. “It was as if I had ...

This article endeavors to detect the goals, main tracks and priorities of Russian diplomacy in a vilayet of the Ottoman Empire, the Hejaz, through the official correspondence of a Russian diplomat, ...