An "ancient and forward looking country"

Arabian American Oil Company. The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. A slide presentation by Aramco.

€ 800.00

Aramco slide show: Complete set of 80 slides introducing an English-speaking audience to the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. A rare, elaborate piece of Aramco memorabilia including a printed narration and caption sheet as well as a synchronized taped cassette narration.

The slides depict Saudi Arabia as an "ancient and forward looking country" effortlessly maintaining its balance between tradition and modernity. They show drilling rigs, the Aramco settlement at Dhahran, the Ras Tanura marine terminal, and projects of irrigation, drainage and desalination next to shots of pilgrims and the crowd attending Hajj, Qur'an manuscripts, Bedouin tribes, and historic sites such as the cliff tombs of Madain Salih. In addition, the collection comprises images of King Khalid, the late King Faisal, Crown Prince Fahd ibn 'Abd al-'Aziz at the White House in 1977, King 'Abd al-'Aziz and President Roosevelt in 1945, King Khalid and Crown Prince Fahd with President Carter, and even a portrait of the narrator, Samia al-Idrisi. Topped off by some splendid views of the Rub' al-Khali desert, Qatif oasis, downtown Riyadh, Jiddah, the "major Red Sea port of Saudi Arabia", school children, college students, nurses, a remote camp of oil explorers, and several world maps comparing oil reserves and production at a global scale.