The National Geographic Mag in Arabic

Thanks to the UAE for not only having started the airing of the channel; and now The Magazine is here. The National Geographic Magazine. In Arabic. The National Geographic educates and informs about: geography, archaeology and natural science; and the promotion of environmental and historical conservation. The organizers of its Arabic version promised to fill a void with emphasis on environmental, ecological and sustainability issues that are under-covered in the existing Arabic-language media.

'Journey to the secret kingdom of Socotra'

Located 250 miles off the coast of Yemen, the tiny island of Socotra is usually overlooked by even the most adventurous of tourist hordes. But as NBC News chief foreign affairs correspondent Richard Engel discovers, the Arabian island's remote location has made it a capsule of antiquity with time-honored traditions not found elsewhere on the planet.