Oh Civilised World!
I appeal to your conscience in hopes that you may hear me,
In hopes that you may fathom the length of my sadness and my despair.
Most accounts of the ’Hijaaz railroad history are either obscure or inaccurate on the point referring to the originator of the idea. A commonly repeated reference is made of Dr. Ferdinand Zimpel, an American civil engineer, who is usually credited, even in some scholarly works, with the honour of conceiving of the idea of a railroad that connects Damascus to Makkah.
Once Sir William Shakespeare asked in his famous play ‘Hamlet’ this famous question, “To be or not to be, that is the question”.
I believe that the number of times I wrote this introductory paragraph and then deleted it cannot be matched except with the number of times I reflected on the topic of this article.