“They were a people of spasms, of upheavals, of ideas, the race of the individual genius,” Lawrence wrote of his comrades in the Hejaz. “The desert Arab found no joy like the joy of ...

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 ...

The settlement lies at the foot of the Hijaz Mountains ... The Nabataeans were desert-dwelling nomads turned expert merchants who controlled much of the incense and spice trade routes throughout ...

Deep in the desert, far from the Turkish held Hejaz railway, Lawrence conducted his guerrilla operations from this oasis town. Finding it: Azraq lies an hour by road east of Amman Wadi Rum ...