🗺️ Drawing the Line on a Map—and the World In 1928, in a quiet room at the Cannes Conference in France, a group of oil executives and diplomats gathered around a map of the Middle East. With ink and rulers,…
📜 Deals Signed in Desert Heat As the 20th century unfolded and massive oil reserves revealed themselves beneath the Middle East, a scramble began—not of armies, but of contracts. While kings and sheikhs ruled the land above, it was foreign…
🏜️ Discovery of Massive Oil Reserves Beneath the Desert Sands In the decades following World War I, as colonial borders were hastily drawn and empires jostled for dominance, a deeper transformation was taking place beneath the surface—the discovery of massive…
