Tuesday, January 15, 2019

Saudi Arabia Before and After Oil


Saudi Arabia. Saoud Ben Abdelaziz / Georges Gueyraud (Ambassador of France) in family. (Photo by Maurice Jarnoux / Paris Match via Getty Image
The Crown Prince and Saudi Arabian Foreign Minister Emir Faisal (1906 - 1975), later King Faisal, inspects a Guard of Honour at the RAF Station at Biggin Hill. He is escorted by the Station Commander A H Donaldson. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

 circa 1950: A Muslim cemetery outside the desert city of Tarim, Hadramaut, Saudi Arabia. (Photo by Three Lions/Getty Images)

 circa 1955: A street in the small oasis town of Qatif, situated between Ras Tanura and Dharan in Saudi Arabia. (Photo by Three Lions/Getty Images)

 1955: A poor couple on a Jedah bound freighter for their pilgrimage to Mecca. All they bring is a bed roll and a few possessions. (Photo by Three Lions/Getty Images)

 July 1940: Sheik Fauzan El Sabek, the Charge d' Affairs in the Saudi Arabian Legation, at the Amer. For. Minister's luncheon nr. the Great Pyramids. (Photo by Margaret Bourke-White/The LIFE Picture Collection/Getty Images)
 BEIRUT, LEBANON: File picture which dates back to the 1940s shows Sheikh Ali Tamimi (R) father of Taleb Tamimi posing with Saudi royal family figures, including the kingdom's current Ling Fahd (3rd R) at the Taminis residence in Baghdad. Sheikh Taleb (not in picture) was assassinated in 1994 by Saddam Hussein's agents in the Lebanese capital following his involvement in an attempt to overthrow the Iraqi dictator. Tamimi, a monarchist, left Iraq in 1968 and lived in political exile between Beirut, Amman, Riyadh and London. AFP PHOTO/Ramzi HAIDAR (Photo credit should read RAMZI HAIDAR/AFP/Getty Images)


 FRANCE - 1953: The emir Faysal Ist (future king of Saudi Arabia) and foreign secretary, arriving at Orly. April 7, 1953. RV-378191. (Photo by Roger Viollet/Getty Images)

 Military, pic: 1940's, General Alan Brooke, (1883-1963) reviewing Saudi Arabian troops, Alan Brooke was a British army officer, chief of staff in world war II and largely responsible for the strategy that led to Germany's defeat, He later became Viscount Alanbrooke (Photo by Popperfoto/Getty Images)

 A little girl at the door of a wealthy merchant, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, circa 1955. (Photo by Paul Almasy/Three Lions/Getty Images)
 A privately-owned petrol station, supplied by the Arabian American Oil Company (Aramco, now Saudi Aramco), Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, circa 1955. Aramco does not sell refined oil products outside Saudi Arabia. (Photo by Pictorial Parade/Archive Photos/Getty Images)

 A gasoline tanker owned by the Arabian American Oil Company (Aramco, now Saudi Aramco), Saudi Arabia, circa 1955. (Photo by Evans/Three Lions/Getty Images)

 One of eleven primary schools built and maintained by the Arabian American Oil Company (Aramco, now Saudi Aramco) for the sons of its employees, Saudi Arabia, circa 1955. (Photo by Evans/Three Lions/Getty Images)

 EGYPT - JANUARY 01: At a conference of the Arab League in Cairo (Egypt) around 1954, the Egyptian Prime Minister Gamal Abdel NASSER (left) pictured speaking with his homologue and Saudi Minister of Foreign Affairs, Prince FAISAL ibn ABD AL-AZIZ. Once he became King of Saudi Arabia, FAYSAL radically opposed himself to NASSER, who had become President, and to the Socialist influence in Egypt, despite a policy of wealth redistribution in Saudi Arabia (social security, free education and transportation). (Photo by Keystone-France/Gamma-Keystone via Getty Images)

 MOROCCO - JANUARY 02: Signing Of Pilgrims To Mecca Aboard Of Providence In Casablanca In 1950. (Photo by Keystone-France/Gamma-Keystone via Getty Images)

 TUNISIA - JULY 26: A Crowd Of Tunisian Joyfully Surrounding Future Hadjs, In The Bus Which Was To Bring Them On Their Pilgrimage To Mecca, On July 26, 1953 In Tunis. (Photo by Keystone-France/Gamma-Keystone via Getty Images)

SAUDI ARABIA - AUGUST 10: The Prime Minister Of Egypt With The Chief Education Officer Of The University Of Azhar Before Attending The Islamic Conference Of Cairo. (Photo by Keystone-France/Gamma-Keystone via Getty Images)

SAUDI ARABIA - JANUARY 01: Dammam Well N° 15. On The Background, A Mosque Of Dhahran. (Photo by Keystone-France/Gamma-Keystone via Getty Images)

 SAUDI ARABIA - JANUARY 01: Oil Industry Dahran Saudi Arabia 40'S (Photo by Keystone-France/Gamma-Keystone via Getty Images)

 SAUDI ARABIA - JANUARY 01: This Armed Soldier Up On His Camel (Which Was Still The Main Means Of Transportation) Is Contrasting With The Refinery Of Bahrain Petroleum Company. (Photo by Keystone-France/Gamma-Keystone via Getty Images)

 SAUDI ARABIA - JANUARY 01: Charles Belgrave (Behind The Sheikh), English Coucellor And Emir Sulman Ben Hamad Al Khalifa Reviewing A Guard Of Honour Of Policemen. Belgrave Has Helped The Sheikh To Modernize The Country Since 1926. (Photo by Keystone-France/Gamma-Keystone via Getty Images)


Saudi Arabia. Saoud Ben Abdelaziz / Georges Gueyraud (Ambassador of France) in family. (Photo by Maurice Jarnoux / Paris Match via Getty Images)

Saudi Arabia. Saoud Ben Abdelaziz / Georges Gueyraud (Ambassador of France) in family. (Photo by Maurice Jarnoux / Paris Match via Getty Images)

Saudi Arabia. Saoud Ben Abdelaziz / Georges Gueyraud (Ambassador of France) in family. (Photo by Maurice Jarnoux / Paris Match via Getty Images)

Saudi Arabia. Saud Ben Abdelaziz / Georges Gueyraud (Ambassador of France) in family. (Photo by Maurice Jarnoux / Paris Match via Getty Images)

Saudi Arabia. Saud Ben Abdelaziz / Georges Gueyraud (Ambassador of France) in family. (Photo by Maurice Jarnoux / Paris Match via Getty Images)

Rendezvous With The King Of Saudi Arabia Saud Ben Abdul Aziz. March 1954, King Saud BEN ABDUL AZIZ of Saudi Arabia in the gardens of Palais Nasri, the most beautiful of the Middle East. He has a passion, the flowers he cultivates himself. (Photo by Maurice Jarnoux / Paris Match via Getty Images)
Rendezvous With The King Of Saudi Arabia Saud Ben Abdul Aziz. March 1954, King Saud Ben Abdulaziz of Saudi Arabia on horseback in the desert, near his palace Nasri, near Riyadh. This photo became his official photo. (Photo by Maurice Jarnoux / Paris Match via Getty Images)
Rendezvous With The King Of Saudi Arabia Saud Ben Abdul Aziz. March 1954, on the occasion of a report on King Saud Ben Abdel Aziz of Saudi Arabia, an unidentified object. (Photo by Maurice Jarnoux / Paris Match via Getty Images)
Rendezvous With The King Of Saudi Arabia Saud Ben Abdel Aziz. March 1954, on the occasion of a report on King Saud Ben Abdel Aziz of Saudi Arabia, overlooking the old city of Riyadh. (Photo by Maurice Jarnoux / Paris Match via Getty Images)
Saudi Arabia. Saud Ben Abdelaziz / Georges Gueyraud (Ambassador of France) in family. (Photo by Maurice Jarnoux / Paris Match via Getty Images)
Saudi Arabia. Saud Ben Abdelaziz / Georges Gueyraud (Ambassador of France) in family. (Photo by Maurice Jarnoux / Paris Match via Getty Images)
Saudi Arabia. Saud Ben Abdelaziz / Georges Gueyraud (Ambassador of France) in family. (Photo by Maurice Jarnoux / Paris Match via Getty Images)
Saudi Arabia. Saud Ben Abdelaziz / Georges Gueyraud (Ambassador of France) in family. (Photo by Maurice Jarnoux / Paris Match via Getty Images)
Saudi Arabia. Saud Ben Abdelaziz / Georges Gueyraud (Ambassador of France) in family. (Photo by Maurice Jarnoux / Paris Match via Getty Images)
Saudi Arabia. Saud Ben Abdelaziz / Georges Gueyraud (Ambassador of France) in family. (Photo by Maurice Jarnoux / Paris Match via Getty Images)
Saudi Arabia. Saud Ben Abdelaziz / Georges Gueyraud (Ambassador of France) in family. (Photo by Maurice Jarnoux / Paris Match via Getty Images)






Rendezvous With The King Ben Abdel Aziz Saud. 7 published in PM 258. 3 published in PM 3000. This rich Arab merchant comes to pray at sunset on the terrace of his palace around Jeddah. The king of the desert SAOUD BEN ABDELAZIZ. The photo on horseback has become his official photo. He has a businessman's office dominated by the portrait of IBN SEOUD. In his gardens, the most beautiful of the Middle East.SAOUD BEN ABDELAZIZ has a passion: flowers. At the Emir of RHIYAD. He is sitting in the center. On his table, two of the two hundred sheep served whole. After the feast, the poor will take the place of the notables. Among his bodyguards, Prince BEN JALWI, Emir of the oil region. (Photo by Maurice Jarnoux / Paris Match via Getty Images)
Rendezvous With The King Ben Abdel Aziz Saud. The king SAOUD BEN ABDEL AZIZ having lunch with the Emir of RIYAD with other guests who are served whole sheep. (Photo by Maurice Jarnoux / Paris Match via Getty Images)
Rendezvous With The King Ben Abdel Aziz Saud. Salih ALOU JECHAN, emir of RAS TANNURA, posing with an unidentified man in front of a giant refinery. (Photo by Maurice Jarnoux / Paris Match via Getty Images)
Rendezvous With The King Ben Abdel Aziz Saud. King Sultan Ben Abdel Aziz riding in the desert, near his palace Nasri, 10 km from Riyadh. (Photo by Maurice Jarnoux / Paris Match via Getty Images)

A view of Two Arab men on their camel in Saudi Arabia. (Photo by Hirz/Archive Photos/Getty Images)

The executioner cleans his blade on the victims robe in Saudi Arabia.(Photo by Express/Archive Photos/Getty Images)

King Ibn Saud of Saudi Arabia (Dr) attends Mecca, March 19, 1954 with his youngest son armed with sabers and daggers (1st rank), at the 'Arda', a party that includes a military magazine during which his sons perform before him the dance of sabers. On the Left of the Sovereign, General Chichakly, Former Fugitive Syrian President / AFP / - (Photo credit should read - / AFP / Getty Images)
(Original Caption) The Begum Aga Khan leans over to kiss the famed black rock inside the Kaaba at Mecca, during traditional ceremonies of the Muslim religion. It is said that the act of kissing removes all sins. Muslims have embarked on their annual pilgrimage to Mecca in the high point of religious celebration of the faith.

(Original Caption) Saudi Arabia: Arabian passenger auto between Riyadh and Mecca.

(Original Caption) 7/29/1951-Amman, Jordan- Members of the royal family are shown standing behind the flag-draped coffin of assassinated King Abdullah of Jordan, as prayers are offered before burial, in the royal cemetery at Amman. From left to right are: behind coffin, Prince Abdullah, Iraq regent; Prince Naif, 35-year-old brother of Prince Talal, who was chosen by the cabinet to secede the late King and whose appointment made Prince Talal furious; Prince Hussein, son of Prince Talal and Prince Fahed of Saudi Arabia.

(Original Caption) Shown at the launching of the world's largest tanker built for Aristotle Onassis, Greek shipping magnet, Onassis is shown with his two children, Christina, (L), and Alexander, (R). Also shown is Sheik Mohammed Abdullah Alireza, Trade Minister of Saudi Arabia.

Colonel Gamal Abdel Nasser (L), Prime Minister of Egypt, is sheltered by an umbrella as he arrives in Mecca for a visit with Saudi Arabian leader Ibn Saud during the time of the traditional Muslim pilgrimage to Mecca.

(Original Caption) 8/18/1952- Washington, DC- Prince Abdullah Faisal, Saudi Arabian Minister of Interior and Public Health, confers with President Harry Truman at the White House, August 18. The Prince called on the President to thank him for inviting him to tour U.S. Reclamation projects and National Parks. The Prince, who has been touring the U.S., since July 14, leaves for Saudi Arabia on August 24. On the right is interpreter Mohammad I. Massoud.

(Original Caption) Egyptian Prime Minister Gamal Abdul Nasser, (L), in Pilgrim's robes is shown with Saudi Arabia Crown Minister Emir Faisal who greeted Nasser on his arrival in Mecca on a pilgrimage. The Egyptian Prime Minister would also attend the Islamic conference to be held at Mecca.



Prince Faisal of Saudi Arabia pictured standing up in the cockpit of a Meteor jet fighter during a visit to RAF Biggin Hill, England, August 13th 1951. (Photo by Central Press/Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

Picture released on 1953 of Muslim pilgrims on Hajj, gathering around the Kaaba, at the holy city of Mecca. / AFP / - (Photo credit should read -/AFP/Getty Images)

Two men view the site of the Arabian American Oil Company's first successful oil well in Saudi Arabia. | Location: Dharan, Saudi Arabia. (Photo by © Hulton-Deutsch Collection/CORBIS/Corbis via Getty Images)

Man and Camel near Oil Well, Saudi Arabia, circa 1940's. (Photo by: Universal History Archive/UIG via Getty Images)

President Mohammed Neguib kisses a cloth during a pilgrimage to Mecca. (Photo by © Hulton-Deutsch Collection/CORBIS/Corbis via Getty Images)

Egyptian President Mohammed Naguib (1901 - 1984, right) with King Saud of Saudi Arabia (1902 - 1969), circa 1953. (Photo by Keystone/Hulton Archive/Getty Images)


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