Sentence examples for jebel from inspiring English sources
In the north of the country, the mountains of Galilee constitute the highest part of Israel, reaching an elevation of 3,963 feet (1,208 metres) at Mount Meron (Arabic: Jebel Jarmaq).
NOMAD MIGRATION ROUTE, MOROCCO For centuries members of the semi-nomadic Ait Atta tribe have traversed mountain paths south twice a year, from the High Atlas to their homeland in the Jebel Sahro, to find new pastures for their huge flocks of sheep and goats.
The port at Jebel Ali is by far the busiest in the Middle East, the cargo it handles growing by nearly 12% last year.
It is likely to become the biggest container port in the world by 2030.Three decades ago Jebel Ali became the Middle East's first big "free zone" (a place where foreign firms can operate, unusually, without a local partner and with less red tape and lower taxes than in the rest of the emirate).
It deplored Israel's decision to build a Jewish settlement, Har Homa, on Jebel Abu Ghneim in occupied East Jerusalem, but twice vetoed resolutions at the UN Security Council on the issue.
It will be based next door to the new Jebel Ali airport, which will eventually have six runways and the capacity to handle 120m passengers a year.
Baḥr al-Jabal, also spelled Bahr el-Jebel, English Mountain Nile, that section of the Nile River between Nimule near the Uganda border and Malakal in South Sudan.
Departures throughout 2010 Trekking to the summit of Mount Toubkal, North Africa's highest peak (4,167m), has always been popular, but for a real adventure combine this with two less well-trodden peaks – Jebel Ouanakrim (4,088m) and Jebel Adrar n'Dern (4,001m).
"We're on our way out of Iraq but not about to vanish," he says, noting that al-Udaid, the American air base in Qatar, is the busiest in the world, and Dubai's Jebel Ali port the most frequently visited by the American navy.
So far, Mr Arafat has kept a tight rein on the protests against the building of Har Homa, the settlement that Israel plans to create on Jebel Abu Ghnein, at the southern edge of East Jerusalem.
Abu Dhabi's airport, about 45 minutes' drive from Jebel Ali, aims to increase its capacity to 20m in 2012 and to 40m a few years later.
