Rub al-Khali

Over the years, his arduous journeys took in great parts of the peninsula, from a lonely expedition through the Rub al-Khali, the Empty Quarter in the southeast of Arabia, to a search for the ancient Jewish communities in northwestern Arabia.

The Prize Daniel Yergin 2008

Over the years, his arduous journeys took in great parts of the peninsula, from a lonely expedition through the Rub al-Khali, the Empty Quarter in the southeast of Arabia, to a search for the ancient Jewish communities in northwestern Arabia.

The Prize Daniel Yergin 2008

These days there's nothing to kill around here but humans and gerbils, the sand rats of the desert, and a few other wee beasties that manage to survive the desolation of the Rub al-Khali, the Empty Quarter of Mesopotamia, as the region between the lower Tigris and Euphrates was called for millennia.

'Bowl Of Cherries' 2007

Assama was the jumping-off place for invasion because an east-west road spills irregularly across the Rub al-Khali, from the beak of the chicken to its tail.

'Bowl Of Cherries' 2007

In mid-July Shell began the first of seven wildcat wells it will drill this year in the Kingdom's Rub al-Khali, a desert known as the Empty Quarter a name Van der Veer hopes is merely metaphorical.

Shell Shocked Christopher Helman 2006

Or see the shimmering air above the sands of _Ar Rub al-Khali_.

Analog Science Fiction and Fact 2004

Thesiger recounted his journey with the bedouin across the sand dunes of the Rub al-Khali, or Empty Quarter, a vast desert of some 225,000 square miles that encroaches on Oman's western boundary.

Homage to Oman 1997

Gravel plains, rocky highlands; one-fourth is the Rub al-Khali

infoplease - Daily Almanac 2009