Out of the Desert: My Journey from Nomadic Bedouin to the Heart of Global Oil
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Al-Naimi, Ali IbrahimDate
2017-1-8Permanent link to this record
http://hdl.handle.net/10754/627088
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Session DescriptionHis Excellency Ali Ibrahim Al-Naimi, former Ministry of Oil in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, will comment on his forthcoming autobiography 'Out of the Desert: My Journey from Nomadic Bedouin to the Heart of Global Oil'.Ali Ibrahim Al-Naimi is the former Saudi oil minister - and OPEC kingpin - a position he held for the two decades between August 1995 and May 2016.He was born into extreme poverty as a nomadic Bedouin in the 1930s, just as US companies were discovering vast quantities of oil under Arabian deserts. From his first job as a shepherd boy to his appointment to one of the most powerful political and economic jobs in the world, Out of the Desert charts Al-Naimi's extraordinary rise to power.
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Winter Enrichment Program 2017Additional Links
https://enrichment.KAUST.edu.sa/wep2017/schedule/session/130/http://mediasite.KAUST.edu.sa/Mediasite/Play/5071a086bb7343eda0ace40f5b8220f91d?catalog=ca65101c-a4eb-4057-9444-45f799bd9c52
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hh7HtJnioFw