ニューヨーク・タイムズのインスタグラム(nytimes) - 2月13日 05時30分

Saudi Arabia is hoping to attract tourists with a music festival near ancient tombs. Its newly-built concert hall in the middle of a desert is hosting performances. In past years, an event like this wouldn’t have taken place in a remote region of the conservative kingdom. But Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, who the CIA has concluded was responsible for the killing Jamal Khashoggi, a Virginia resident and @washingtonpost columnist, has set a strategy to loosen restrictions on entertainment and expressions of popular culture in Saudi Arabia. Now, to develop a tourism industry, officials are focusing on the ancient caravan town of Al Ula in the Hejaz. That’s where the @winterattora festival is being held. The centerpiece of the area is Mada’in Saleh, or Al Hijr, a collection of more than 100 towering tombs carved into hillsides. The festival, which at least 30,000 people have attended as of early February, “has allowed the people of Al Ula to proudly show their home to the world,” said Abdullah al-Khelawi, the royal commission’s head of economic development. Visit the link in our profile to read more. @tasneemalsultan shot these photos of a restaurant behind a mountain; the newly created concert hall; Mada’in Saleh; 2 tourists; air balloons being prepared for tourists; and tourists peering into one of the tombs in Dadaan.

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