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The following photos are part of the Saudi Aramco World Digital Image Archive (SAWDIA), an extensive collection of images that can be found at: http://photoarchive.saudiaramcoworld.com/.
The photos below have been, are now or will soon be featured on SUSTG’s home page. Credits and information for each SAWDIA photo are included.
Please note the ‘Issue Date’ for each photo. They have been featured in Saudi Aramco World magazine, an extraordinary publication begun in the 1960s that highlights interesting contemporary and historical aspects not only of Aramco but also of Saudi Arabia, the Arab world, Islamic culture and a broad array of other fascinating topics. The articles associated with each photo can be read in their entirety on-line.
Location: Saudi Arabia
Issue Date: JF99
Article Title: The Culinary Kingdom
Article Teaser: From Rice-and meat-based dishes of the deserts to fish recipes of the coasts, Saudi cuisine is as old as human settlement. Since the dawn of Islam, pilgrims and traders-Levantine, Turkish, Egyptian, Central Asian, Indian, European, American and others — have added their influences, resulting in today’s variety of regionally distinctive traditions.
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Source: Kristie Burns
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Location: Makkah, Saudi Arabia
Issue Date: MJ02
Photo Caption: Uninhabited for the most of each year, the Hajj encampment fills the flat, narrow valley of Mina east of Makkah with 1.8 million pilgrims, who camp here for four nights in more than 40,000 permanent tents, many of which accommodate up to 40 people.
Article Title: Welcoming God’s Guests
Article Teaser: An annual stream of 2.3 million visitors come to Makkah from some 100 countries to carry out the rituals of the Hajj, the Muslim pilgrimage. For Makkans, and Saudis in general, the pilgrims are “duyuf al-rahman,” “guests of the Merciful [God],” deserving of exceptional hospitality, and the kingdom has spent some $70 billion since 1955 to build and improve facilities for them. And every year, there is the work of tens of thousands, from all over Saudi Arabia: engineers, researchers, managers, doctors, drivers, guards, guides, laborers and volunteers. Behind the scenes, they make possible the largest annual religious gathering on Earth.
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Source: Samia El-Moslimany
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Location: Jiddah, Saudi Arabia
Issue Date: MJ02
Article Title: Welcoming God’s Guests
Article Teaser: An annual stream of 2.3 million visitors come to Makkah from some 100 countries to carry out the rituals of the Hajj, the Muslim pilgrimage. For Makkans, and Saudis in general, the pilgrims are “duyuf al-rahman,” “guests of the Merciful [God],” deserving of exceptional hospitality, and the kingdom has spent some $70 billion since 1955 to build and improve facilities for them. And every year, there is the work of tens of thousands, from all over Saudi Arabia: engineers, researchers, managers, doctors, drivers, guards, guides, laborers and volunteers. Behind the scenes, they make possible the largest annual religious gathering on Earth.
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Location: Hail, Saudi Arabia
Issue Date: MJ80
Article Title: A Journey To Hail
Article Teaser: To help a young friend find a wife, Lady Anne and her husband set off for Hail — a journey that became one of the best 19th — century books on the exploration of the Arabian Peninsula.
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Issue Date: MJ82
Article Title: Science in The Modern Age
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Source: B.H.Moody
Location: Dhahran, Saudi Arabia
Issue Date: MJ82
Article Title: Science in The Modern Age
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Source: B.H. Moody
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Issue Date: MJ82
Article Title: Science in The Modern Age
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Issue Date: MJ82
Article Title: Science in The Modern Age
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Source: B.H.Moody
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Location: Yanbu, Saudi Arabia
Issue Date: MJ82
Article Title: Science in The Modern Age
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Source: Tor Eigeland
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Location: Madinah, Saudi Arabia
Issue Date: ND91
Article Title: The Arab Heartland
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Source: S.M. Amin
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Location: Riyadh, Saudi Arabia
Issue Date: ND91
Article Title: The Arab Heartland
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Source: Abdullah Y. Al-Dobais / Saudi Aramco
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Location: ‘Asir, Saudi Arabia
Issue Date: SO80
Article Title: Back to The Highlands
Article Teaser: Philby called it “the very backbone of Arabia” and Thesiger described its “graceful, laughing people”. This is ‘Asir — fertile, cool, and scenically magnificent.
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Source: Tor Eigeland
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Location: Dhahran, Saudi Arabia
Issue Date: JF80
Article Title: Their Fathers’ Sons
Article Teaser: The students of UPM — the University of Petroleum and Minerals — embody the past and future of Saudi Arabia, a nation determined to have both without destroying either.
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Source: B.H. Moody
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Location: near Jubail Industrial City, Eastern Province, Saudi Arabia
Issue Date: SO93
Photo Caption: Curves of silver-painted pipe in Saudi Aramco’s Berri Gas Plant point the way into the future for the world’s largest exporter of crude oil and natural gas liquids. The plant processes more than half a billion standard cubic feet a day of gas produced in association with crude oil.
Article Title: Saudi Aramco at Sixty
Article Teaser: Saudi Arabia’s oil industry began 60 years ago with two signatures on a piece of paper; today, the country is the world’s top oil producer. Saudi Aramco, founded just five years ago, inherited a proud can-do tradition, and is building on its legacy.
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Source: S.M. Amin
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Location: Saudi Arabia
Issue Date: MJ84
Article Title: Aramco: a celebration
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Source: B.H. Moody
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Location: Shuwaymas, Saudi Arabia
Issue Date: MA02
Photo Caption: At Shuwaymas, carved-out human footprints, serpentine squiggles and inscrutable designs mingle with depictions of animals and the humans who thrived in the Arabian Peninsula during its transition from post-Ice Age savanna to today’s deserts. “We kept coming back to reflect on the stories the petroglyphs tell,” says Mahboub Habbas al-Rasheedi, who first saw the site in March 2001. “Somehow we are connected to them.”
Article Title: Art Rocks in Saudi Arabia
Article Teaser: Rising inconspicuously in a dry valley tucked among vast and barren lava fields, a weathered sandstone outcrop shows images of long-and-short-horned cattle, cheetahs, hyenas, oryx, ibex, ostriches, horses, mules and camels, human figures and geometric shapes–evidence of a long history of human settlement in a once-verdant land. Yet the site is so remote that the art was discovered only last year. Called Shuwaymas, it is the latest of more than 2000 rock-art sites to be found in Saudi Arabia, the least-known of the world’s repositories of prehistoric art. The article contains photographs from it as well as the better-known sites of Jubbah and Bir Hima in the Najran region.
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Source: Lars Bjurstrom
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