
ARAMCO: Above the Oil Fields
BOOK INFOPaper over Board, 13 X 11 in. / 196 Pages / 152 Color Photographs / 18 InsertsISBN 9781942084365List Price: $50.00 “While the book is undoubtedly documentary, Ms. Malik’s account is first and foremost a personal investigation of her own memory.”,- The New York Times, June 20, 2017 “Here, cultures that usually clash blend together, and identity outgrows simple, nationalistic terms.”,- Aperture, September 14, 2017 ...a strangely personal, honest, and childlike view of a place that, to most, seems bizarre.”,- Vice, September 13, 2017 Photographs by Ayesha MalikContributions 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 A