Books
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Making the desert modern | Chad H. Parker | In 1933 American oilmen representing what later became the Arabian American Oil Company (Aramco) signed a concession agreement with the Saudi Arabian king granting the company sole proprietorship ove… | OL20029908W |
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Out of the desert | Ali Al-Naimi | The extraordinary memoir of global oil's former central banker Ali Al-Naimi is the former Saudi oil minister - and OPEC kingpin - a position he held for the two decades between August 1995 and May 20… | OL20043275W |
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Urban violence in the Middle East | Nora Lafi,Nelida Fuccaro,Ulrike Freitag,Claudia Ghrawi | "Covering a period from the late eighteenth century to today, this volume explores the phenomenon of urban violence in order to unveil general developments and historical specificities in a variety o… | OL23206280W |