Camels are seen during a beauty contest as part of the annual King Abdulaziz Camel Festival in Rumah, some 160 kilometres east of Riyadh, on January 19, 2018.

But beauty is in the eye of the beholder, and such is the camel’s importance in Saudi Arabia’s history and culture that it is the subject of a beauty contest every year. Fawzan al-Madi, the ...

The Saudi Camel Club has posted on its Twitter account images from inside the passport showing a flock of camels splashed across two opposite pages. “Our passport is our identity. It is bedecked ...

AL-RUMAHIYA, Saudi Arabia – The dromedaries paraded down a dusty racetrack as judges rated the size of their lips, cheeks, heads and knees. Crowds of men watched from the bleachers, hooting w… ...

To the untrained eye, the camel might not be the most attractive of animals. It might not rank alongside the more majestic beasts of the animal kingdom like the lion or the elephant. In the popular ...

Saudi Arabia annually hosts the King Abdulaziz Camel Festival, the world’s such biggest pageant. There are around 1.8 million camels with a market value of over SR50 billion in Saudi Arabia ...

A unique beauty pageant in Saudi Arabia that is specifically for camels included women instead of only men as the animals' owners participating in the event for the first time, DW News reported on ...

Photos show how Saudi Arabia has changed over time. ... The earlier photographs show a quieter country, one where camels are unloaded from ships in slings, ...

Judges at Saudi Arabia’s annual camel beauty pageant this month are looking for long, wide necks, broad cheeks, a shapely hump and drooping lips, and they were set to hand out millions of ...