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General aspect Stem and leaf close-up. Rhanterium epapposum is a plant of the family Asteraceae. [1] Native to the deserts of the Arabian Peninsula including Kuwait, Saudi Arabia and Qatar where it is known locally as arfaj (Arabic: عرفج). [2]
It is primarily endemic to Ethiopia and Yemen, but can also be found in the Sudan, Somalia and Saudi Arabia, and into Uganda and Tanzania in the African Great Lakes region. The tree grows along rivers forming stands or thickets. Additionally, it is found in dry savannah and grows at elevations between 1,400 and 2,500 m (4,590 and 8,200 ft).
The Tree of Life (Shajarat-al-Hayat) in Bahrain is a 9.75 meters (32 feet) high Prosopis cineraria tree that is over 400 years old. It is on a hill in a barren area of the Arabian Desert , approximately 6 kilometers (3.7 mi) from Jebel Dukhan , the highest point in Bahrain, and 40 kilometers (25 mi) from Manama .
The Peninsula contains the world's largest reserves of oil. Saudi Arabia and the UAE are economically the wealthiest in the region. Qatar, the only peninsular country in the Persian Gulf on the larger peninsula, is home to the Arabic-language television station Al Jazeera and its English-language subsidiary Al Jazeera English.
Some other pioneering names in the Saudi art scene who benefited from the Ministry of Knowledge's scholarship programs abroad include the likes of Muhammad Al-Saleem, Muhammad Al-Saqa’bi, Dia Aziz, Ahmad Felemban, and many others. They represented the avant-garde of modern art in Saudi Arabia through solo and group art shows. [9]
Saudi Arabia, [d] officially the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia (KSA), [e] is a country in West Asia.Located in the centre of the Middle East, it covers the bulk of the Arabian Peninsula and has a land area of about 2,150,000 km 2 (830,000 sq mi), making it the fifth-largest country in Asia, the largest in the Middle East, and the 12th-largest in the world. [15]
The major ethnic group in the region is the Arabs, whose primary language is Arabic. In the center of the desert lies Riyadh, the capital of Saudi Arabia, with more than 7 million inhabitants. [11] Other large cities, such as Dubai, Abu Dhabi, or Kuwait City, lie on the coast of the Persian Gulf.
In a 1975 agreement with Saudi Arabia, Abu Dhabi accepted sovereignty over six villages in the 'Al Buraymi Oasis and the sharing of the rich Zararah oil field. In return, Saudi Arabia obtained an outlet to the Persian Gulf through Abu Dhabi. Saudi Arabia's maritime claims include a twelve-nautical-mile (22 km) territorial limit along its coasts.