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1st segment is under construction with completion date of 2027. 2nd segment has been extended to the Western Desert and has begun construction, with no announced end date. Construction of the 3rd segment, which is currently in the planning stage, is reported to begin soon. Further lines are proposed

 

1st segment is under construction with completion date of 2027. 2nd segment has been extended to the Western Desert and has begun construction, with no announced end date. Construction of the 3rd segment, which is currently in the planning stage, is reported to begin soon. Further lines are proposed

 

Photograph: Omar Al-Qattaa/AFP/Getty

 
 
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[–] [email protected] 0 points 3 months ago (3 children)

Gorgeous. Two of my favorite things.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago

This is a map for whales

[–] [email protected] 21 points 3 months ago

Interesting, not a projection that I have seen before.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 months ago

English is confusing and before making this post I had to double check that I am using the correct word and not the other one that you mean here.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago

The dishes made with them are prepared in a similar manner. Rice in Mashreq replaced bulgur sometime over the past century or so.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 3 months ago

The map doesn't include Iran or Turkiye.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 3 months ago (2 children)

Is bread a processed food? It doesn't grow on trees. Bread can also be a staple food.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago

The loss of the Hejaz Railway is still a great tragedy. There are planned railroads that will connect to Iraq, and it is possible to go to Jordan from Saudi Arabia by train, but nothing like what has been lost so far.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

Why are they dropping bombs that take out entire blocks though? They aren't even being precise about it. It is not like they have hidden their genocidal intents.

"The emphasis is on damage and not on accuracy" -- Daniel Hagari

"We are fighting human animals and we are acting accordingly" -- Yoav Gallant

Just a few of many quotes that reveal their intents and yet here you are defending genocide.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

I do enjoy the hypocrisy of Western leaders, they aren't even tacit about it anymore, and the public evidently are so propagandized as to justify genocide even when they think they oppose it.

[–] [email protected] -4 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

The line is a bit more blurry on the East side than the West but this might just be my own bias coming from Lebanon.

I always thought Urban Hejaz and the Levant [and Egypt] share in a dialect continuum or at least a sprachbund, I don't know a lot of dialects that say مرق to mean pass except those two. Urban Hejazi dialects also drop the use of interdentals like in Lebanese. In the same way Bahrani dialect Bahrain/Eastern Saudi Arabia shares with Mesopotamia in having Akkadian and Aramaic influences.

Here's a fun comparison between Hejazi and Najdi dialects https://youtube.com/shorts/Fi9_bNiazOA

More aggressive in tone on average.

Only the Bedouin and Najdi dialects which happen to be over represented. Jeddawi in particular and other Urban Hejazi dialects are seen as effeminate https://youtu.be/AHWbA0b9bK4

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