Royal Purple continues to grow in the US and internationally. Royal Purple was acquired in 2012 by Calumet Specialty Products Partners (CLMT), a leading refiner and processor of specialty hydrocarbon products headquartered in Indianapolis, IN.
Al Ghad was founded by Mohammad Alayyan in August 2004. Alayyan is also the chairman of the Al Faridah Specialized Printing, publisher of the daily. As of 2005 Emad Hmoud was the editor-in-chief of the paper.
Archeological evidence in Uzbekistan indicates that Iranian nomads built settlements at Bukhara and Samarqand in the first millennium B.C. Over the centuries, the savage armies of Alexander the Great, Genghis Khan and Tamerlane conquered the lands, but by the early 16th century, fierce, indigenous Uzbek tribes controlled most of Central Asia; they subsequently built their cities and established regional commerce.