At that time a camelback Arab army was approaching fast. The tribes of the Hejaz had risen against their German-allied Ottoman overlords. And the foreigner who had stoked the revolt—he was ...

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 ...

Hejaz, now part of Saudi Arabia, became the first independent Arab state. The British government was hoping to push the Ottoman Army out of the Arabian Peninsula (the Ottomans were allied with ...