Newspapers were first published in Syria during the Ottoman era.
 The first newspaper published in the country was "Hadiqat al-Akhbar", published in 1857 by Khalil Al Khuri.
 The number of the newspapers increased when the country was under French mandate.
It has been proposed by international powers that Syria and Iraq be divided into Sunnistan, Shiastan and Kurdistan.
 Sunnistan would become a Sunni Arab state in northwest Iraq and eastern Syria, Shiastan a Shia Arab state in southeast Iraq, and Kurdistan in northern Syria and northern Iraq, whose people are Sunni Kurds.
Fawad Siddiqui is an American actor, improvisational comedian, journalist and cartoonist.
 He has appeared on the USA Network television show "Burn Notice" alongside Bruce Campbell and Jeffrey Donovan, in the George Clooney film "The Men Who Stare At Goats" with Ewan McGregor [1], and in the indie films "The Bait" and "Festival of Lights"—starring Jimi Mistry and Aidan Quinn.
 He also had a role in Queen Latifah produced sequel The Cookout Part 2—starring Charlie Murphy, Mike Tyson and Faizon Love—and currently has a recurring role on the fifth season of the Lifetime Network series "Army Wives".
 He also appeared in the latest season of the FX/The Audience Network series "Damages"—starring Glenn Close, Rose Byrne and John Goodman—as the shady Afghan information broker Shahbaz Gul opposite Dylan Baker, and in the French comedy "Bienvenue à Bord"—opposite popular French comedic actors Franck Dubosc and Valérie Lemercier, released in October 2011.
 He will be featured in the upcoming 2013 indie drama "Sunlight Jr.", from critically acclaimed director Laurie Collyer, opposite Matt Dillon and Naomi Watts.
 And he played the role of Mohammed Al Ghamdi in the second season of the Emmy Award-winning Showtime series Homeland, starring Claire Danes and Mandy Patinkin.
New Arab High School (Hebrew: תיכון ערבי חדש‎ ‎ ) is an Arab state high school in Lod, Israel.
 The city's first Arab state high school, it opened in the former Lod Regional College seat building in November 2010.
 As of June 2011 it had 250 students.
 It was scheduled to move into a new facility in the Train neighbourhood of Lod, but as of June 2011 it remained in its temporary home.
Iran (Persian: ایران‎ ‎ "Irān " ] ), also known as Persia ( ), officially the Islamic Republic of Iran (Persian: جمهوری اسلامی ایران‎ ‎ "Jomhuri-ye Eslāmi-ye Irān " ), is a sovereign state in Western Asia.
 With over 79.92 million inhabitants (as of August 2017 ), Iran is the world's 18th-most-populous country.
 Comprising a land area of 1648195 km2 , it is the second-largest country in the Middle East and the 17th-largest in the world.
 Iran is bordered to the northwest by Armenia, the "de facto" independent Republic of Artsakh, the Republic of Azerbaijan, and the Azerbaijani exclave of Nakhchivan; to the north by the Caspian Sea; to the northeast by Turkmenistan; to the east by Afghanistan and Pakistan; to the south by the Persian Gulf and the Gulf of Oman; and to the west by Turkey and Iraq.
 The country's central location in Eurasia and Western Asia, and its proximity to the Strait of Hormuz, give it geostrategic importance.
 Tehran is the country's capital and largest city, as well as its leading economic and cultural center.
Khalil Al Hindawi (1906, Sidon – 1976, Aleppo) was a Syrian writer and poet.
Khalil Al Ali (Arabic:خليل آل علي) (born 21 December 1984) is a Emirati footballer.
 He currently plays for Al Dhafra .
Saudi Arabia ( , ), officially the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia (KSA), is a sovereign Arab state in Western Asia constituting the bulk of the Arabian Peninsula.
Khalil Ibrahim Jalal Al Ghamdi (Arabic: خليل إبراهيم جلال الغامدي‎ ‎ ; born September 2, 1970) is a Saudi Arabian football referee.
 He is known for having officiated the football tournament in the AFC Asian Cup League.
 He has been a FIFA international referee since 2003.
The Arab Revolt (Arabic: الثورة العربية‎ ‎ , "al-Thawra al-‘Arabiyya "; Turkish: "Arap İsyanı" ) or Great Arab Revolt (Arabic: الثورة العربية الكبرى‎ ‎ , "al-Thawra al-‘Arabiyya al-Kubrā ") was officially initiated by Sherif Hussein bin Ali at Mecca on 10 June 1916 (9 Sha'ban of the Islamic calendar for that year) although his sons ‘Ali and Faisal had already initiated operations at Medina starting on 5 June with the aim of securing independence from the ruling Ottoman Turks and creating a single unified Arab state spanning from Aleppo in Syria to Aden in Yemen.

Question: Khalil Al Ghamdi, from a sovereign Arab state in Western Asia, is a referee for what sport?
Answer: football referee