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Author Insight
oil or tourism
Todays' press, and yesterdays is all about the US president's trip to Saudi Arabia. The focus is oil and how to produce more in Saudi to support the American economy. Gone are the promotions of tourism in the kingdom. Oil has overtaken the conversation. Last year Saudi had over 17 million visitors, many of them to Makkah, but many are also seeing the rest of the country. Right now we wait and see, as the meeting between the president and MSB, and other gulf leaders will tell the future. Tourism may not be mentioned but the meeting will hold the future for visitors.
Book Excerpt
The Bystander
“Amy, no one knows why, but coral fossils and fish scales have been found in the sand. Over three hundred million years ago, in the Jurassic era, this desert was a sea. Once rivers ran through the peninsula and formed the many wadis. Near Jizan, south of Jeddah on the Red Sea, French archeologists found bones of a moeritherium.”
“I’m not up on bones. What’s that?” asked Amy.
“I know. I just learned the name, too. It is a hippo-like animal that is now extinct. At one time, the Arabian Peninsula was connected to Africa, but we are talking millions of years ago.
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