Oil Curse Or Blessing
Ahmed Al-Nabhani
Mr. L
Modern Middle East A-block
September, 2014
Is Oil a Blessing or a Course? 1908 was a turning point for the Middle East, due to the discovery of oil in Persia and in 1938 in Saudi Arabia and other parts of the Arabian Gulf. Due to this blessed discovery of oil, the Middle East has been rapidly developing and become more developed over the years. This development could only happen of the oil money is put into good use and not taken by the corrupt and greedy members of the government. For example some of the oil rich countries have a large amount of poor people, because most of the oil money is taken by the politicians which are the richest with these countries. Oil rich coteries in the Middle East are mostly desert. For example Saudi Arabia id 95 percent desert, which brings us to a problem. These oil rich countries have water shortages, but thankfully because of their oil richness they can afford to get water. Saudi Arabia the largest country in the Arabian Peninsula gets 50 percent of its water supply by seawater desalination which requires a large amount of fossil fuels, thankfully this is not a problem for the Saudi government because they have enough fossil fuels that they do not lose anything by using those large sums of hydrocarbons to gain drinking water. This only works for oil rich and wealthy countries it does not work for other countries like Jordan which is one of the top five poorest countries in the world. Because they do not have the resources, nor the money to dissolute water from the red sea. Oil money can by lots of things for Example look at the United Arab Emirates, specifically Dubai this mega city owes its growth to oil money and trade. The government in Dubai has been trying to move its economy away for fossil fuels to tourism, aviation, real estate, and financial services by building up there city and making it one of the into a metropolis which then lead into a global city. Dubai now attracts lots of different
Mr. L
Modern Middle East A-block
September, 2014
Is Oil a Blessing or a Course? 1908 was a turning point for the Middle East, due to the discovery of oil in Persia and in 1938 in Saudi Arabia and other parts of the Arabian Gulf. Due to this blessed discovery of oil, the Middle East has been rapidly developing and become more developed over the years. This development could only happen of the oil money is put into good use and not taken by the corrupt and greedy members of the government. For example some of the oil rich countries have a large amount of poor people, because most of the oil money is taken by the politicians which are the richest with these countries. Oil rich coteries in the Middle East are mostly desert. For example Saudi Arabia id 95 percent desert, which brings us to a problem. These oil rich countries have water shortages, but thankfully because of their oil richness they can afford to get water. Saudi Arabia the largest country in the Arabian Peninsula gets 50 percent of its water supply by seawater desalination which requires a large amount of fossil fuels, thankfully this is not a problem for the Saudi government because they have enough fossil fuels that they do not lose anything by using those large sums of hydrocarbons to gain drinking water. This only works for oil rich and wealthy countries it does not work for other countries like Jordan which is one of the top five poorest countries in the world. Because they do not have the resources, nor the money to dissolute water from the red sea. Oil money can by lots of things for Example look at the United Arab Emirates, specifically Dubai this mega city owes its growth to oil money and trade. The government in Dubai has been trying to move its economy away for fossil fuels to tourism, aviation, real estate, and financial services by building up there city and making it one of the into a metropolis which then lead into a global city. Dubai now attracts lots of different