Talk:Al-Ula

Transliteration
citing this tourism website, has taken the huge step to replace all mentions in Wikipedia of "al-'Ula " to "AlUla", including for this article's title.

Worse, even the old mentions have been removed. ..

It goes without saying, that a tourist website does not constitute enough material to change the title, which is based on a principle of least surprise or consistency with other titles. At best the other spelling can only be included as a "second spelling", for instance "al-'Ula's tourist website spells the city's name AlUla".

WP:TRANSLITERATE does not point to a page for Arabic. But I'm confident that this is not consistent with the various norms and customs for the Transliteration of Arabic. CamelCase is extremely rare in languages, let alone romanization.

So far there have been about 120 such edits. This needs to stop. ..

Kahlores (talk) 21:10, 8 January 2021 (UTC)

ArtsAlUla
AlUla continues to implement the cultural manifesto that sees the destination re-emerging as a centre for creative industries, today we launch a new home for Arts in AlUla

For millennia, AlUla was a bustling centre of intercultural exchange, creative ingenuity and artistic practice.

This portal is a glimpse of just some of the exhibitions of contemporary art soon to premier in AlUla’s landscapes, and the design inspired by AlUla and artist engagement programmes activated for the enrichment of our communities.

AlUla hosts international Arts Programs such as :

DesertX Artist Residency Programme Maddrassat addeera ( Old handcraft school in AlUla) Cortona on the move AlUla Design Award What Lies Within

'''DesertxAlUla ''' AlUla has long been an oasis of arts and creativity, with contemporary artists presenting exceptional works. Desert X AlUla in 2020 signalled our intention to continue a legacy of delivering compelling encounters with today’s artists – and in 2022, the art of our time will be shared through exceptional exhibitions in the landscapes and venues of AlUla.

https://livingmuseum.com/ArtsAlUla/contemporary-arts/desertx

Artist Residency Programme — Preceding unsigned comment added by MostafaSami01 (talk • contribs) 08:01, 18 March 2022 (UTC)

The Neolithic
Jane McMahon from the University of Western Australia is researching this: The mustatils: cult and monumentality in Neolithic north-western Arabia is a paper from 2021, and there may be a more recent one. Here's a longform BBC Travel article about Neolithic structures in AlUla, dated today. (Yes, by WP:SOFIXIT I should add it to the article instead of posting here, and I'm probably just talking to myself, but I might come back to this.) Card Zero  (talk) 15:12, 5 July 2022 (UTC)