The firm has taken on the Diyar Al Khalidiya hotel and is negotiating international branding for the property. Aleph ...

Makkah is therefore the 2nd top city in the Middle East and Africa for the number of hotel rooms set to enter the market, behind only Dubai, with 43,714 rooms currently in the pipeline.

MECCA, Saudi Arabia - As a child, Osama al-Bar would walk from his home past Islam's holiest site, the Kaaba, to the market of spice and fabric merchants where his father owned a store. At that ...

MECCA, Saudi Arabia — As a child, Osama al-Bar would walk from his home past Islam’s holiest site, the Kaaba, to the market of spice and fabric merchants where his father owned a store.

Every year, Muslim pilgrims make their way to the city of Mecca in Saudi Arabia to perform the Hajj and Umrah. While the Hajj is performed during specific dates in the Muslim calendar (between the ...

Prince Khaled had earlier announced that Makkah would be developed into a smart city with the Grand Mosque as its focal point over the next six years. The meeting was attended by Mayor of Makkah Dr.

Ramadan in Makkah is like no other experience in the world. It is as if the city does not sleep; its roads and streets are crowded throughout the day and while there is a momentary reprieve after ...

MECCA, Saudi Arabia (AP) — As a child, Osama al-Bar would walk from his home past Islam’s holiest site, the Kaaba, to the market of spice and fabric merchants where his father owned a store ...