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Cities of Salt

Abdelrahman Munif

1984

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How oil upends life in an Arabian oasis.

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Cities of Salt opens his five-part petro-epic on how black gold shatters a desert way of life. Munif was stripped of Saudi citizenship for criticizing the ruling family.

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