This site will look atPersia, which at one point had been one of the greatest empires of all time. From this great culture we gained beautiful art seen in the masterful wovenPersian carpets, melodic poetic verse, and modern algebra. It is referred to as an “ancient” empire, but, in f...
The terms “Persian” and “Iranian”don’tnecessarily mean the same thing. Some people draw a distinction in that Persian relates to a particular ethnicity, and being Iranian is a claim to a certain nationality. Thus, a person could be one without being the other. The Difference Between Per...
celebrated in camel races, dog-rearing at theArabian Saluki Centreand bird-husbandry at the Falcon Hospital. In fact, Bedouin culture is everywhere in evidence – from coffee-drinking hospitality in the Qasr Al Sarab desert resort to cross...
In southeast Zagros, the deformation is pure shortening of 8 ± 2 mm yr 1 occurring perpendicular to the simple folded belt and restricted to the Persian Gulf shore. The fact that most of the deformation is located in front of the simple folded belt, close to the Persian Gulf, while ...
Kuwait lies on the north western coast of the Persian Gulf between Iraq and Saudi Arabia. There are nine islands off the coast of Kuwait. The capital city of Kuwait is Kuwait City. Other large cities in Kuwait include Hawalli and as-Salimiya. Moreover, Kuwait occupies a total area of abo...
Qatar lies in the Persian Gulf and has land borders with both UAE as well as Saudi Arabia. Doha is the capital of Qatar it was a British protectorate and gained independence as late as 1971. It was one of the poorest Arabian states at one point of time, but now it has become one of...