Ayesha Malik, Aramco: Above the Oil Fields

Aramco: Above the Oil Fields

Ayesha Malik

Publisher
Daylight Books
Year
2017
ISBN
9781942084365
Specifications
Paper over Board
13 x 11 inches
196 pages
152 Color Photographs
18 Inserts
Contributions by Elizabeth Renstrom

In ARAMCO: Above the Oil Fields, Ayesha Malik delivers a personalized account of life within Dhahran, Saudi Arabia, a gated community originally created as a home for American employees of the Arabian American Oil Company (now known as Saudi Aramco). This small town houses the world's wealthiest company, which also owns the world's largest crude oil reserves. In 2018, as part of Saudi Arabia's Vision 2030 plan, the public sale of a percentage of the company is expected to be the biggest IPO in history, valued at around $2 trillion. Malik shares the surprising warmth, familiarity, and timelessness of this 22-and-a-half square-mile place that so many Aramcons call home. Malik's photographs provoke conversation about the perception of and preconceived ideas about a home that is neither fully Saudi nor fully American -- a home unlike any other.

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