[YahyaAE]

For a while, but not so much anymore (at least not reported in the media), there was a period during the Mid 2p0p0pp0s up until a couple years ago, there was rash of mysterious fires particularly in Saudi, Kuwait, Oman and Egypt. The fires were weird and so inevitably were blamed on djinn. A few of the cases are featured in this video Djinn Encounters Across the Arab World

 

[sister herb]

http://weekly.ahram.org.eg/Archive/2004/701/eg9.htm

Article is from 2004 so this mystery has been known for a while already.