EditorialA mother fixes the hair of her daughter during the 50-mile leisure trip from Amman, Jordan on the last functioning strip of the original Hejaz Railway, on June 4, 2022. (Laura Boushnak/The New York Times)
EditorialTHE CEMETERY AT MECCA. Mecca, Bakkah. also transliterated as Makkah, is a city in the Hejaz and the capital of Makkah Province in Saudi Arabia.
EditorialTHE TOMB OF NADIR SHAH OF PERSIA AT MECCA. Mecca, Bakkah. also transliterated as Makkah, is a city in the Hejaz and the capital of Makkah Province in Saudi Arabia.
EditorialTHE KAABA, OR "KISSING STONE " ENCLOSURE AT MECCA. Mecca, Bakkah. also transliterated as Makkah, is a city in the Hejaz and the capital of Makkah Province in Saudi Arabia.
EditorialTHE CEMETERY AT MECCA. Mecca, Bakkah. also transliterated as Makkah, is a city in the Hejaz and the capital of Makkah Province in Saudi Arabia.
EditorialAn abandoned railroad station of the once famous Hejaz-railway, built around 1900 to transport pilgrims from Damascus to Medina. The Amman-Medina stretch was destroyed during the First World War, mainly by the Arab troops of Lawrence of Arabia.