With the author's permission, this resource draws heavily on two books by Dr Fouad Al Farsy:

• Modernity & Tradition: The Saudi Equation (latest edition 2001)
• Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques King Fahd bin Abdul Aziz (first published 2001)

Photographs in this resource were supplied by the Saudi Press Agency.

General bibliography:

• A Brief Account of the Life of King Abdul Aziz, Knight Communications, 1998
• A Country and a Citizen for a Happy Decent Life, Ministry of Information, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, 1999
• American Petroleum Institute website (www.api.org)
• Bitter Harvest, Sami Hadawi, Scorpion Publishing Ltd, 1983
• Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques King Fahd ibn Abdul Aziz, Saudi Desert House Agency, 2000
• Desert Warrior, HRH General Khaled bin Sultan, Harper Collins Publishers, 1995
• The Gulf Crisis, An Attempt to Understand, Ghazi A. Algosaibi, Kegan Paul International, first published in English, 1993
• The Holy Ka’bah and the Two Holy Mosques, Construction and History, Obaid Allah Muhammad Amin Kurdi, The Saudi Bin Ladin Group
• King Fahd and Saudi Arabia’s Great Evolution, Dr Nasser Ibrahim Rashid and Dr Esber Ibrahim Shaheen, International Institute of Technology Inc, USA, 1987
• Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, 100 Years in the Service of Islam and Muslims, The Islamic Center for Information and Development, Beirut, Lebanon, 2000
• Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, One Hundred Years in the Service of Arabs and Arab Affairs, Highlights of Development in Saudi Arabia, Dar Al-Ufuq for Publishing and Distributing
• Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, The March of Progress, Ministry of Information Foreign Information Department, 1999
• Middle East and North Africa 2000, Europa Publications
• Ministry of Higher Education website (www.mohe.gov.sa)
• Ministry of Information website (www.saudinf.com)
• Opec Fund for International Development Annual Report 1999
• Saudi Press Agency news releases
• Story of the Great Expansion, Hamid Abbas, Saudi Bin Ladin Group, 1996
• This is Our Country, Ministry of Information, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, 2000

The statistical information in this book has been drawn primarily from Saudi Arabian Government sources.

Extensive use has been made of Achievements of the Development Plans, 1970-2000 published by the Ministry of Planning.