# Out of the Desert

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- Authors: [Ali Al-Naimi](https://www.bookquiver.com/ali-al-naimi)
- Language: en_GB
- Published: 2016-11-03

## Description

Until 7 May 2016, Ali Al-Naimi was Saudi oil minister - and OPEC kingpin - a position he had held for 20 years. As global oil's central banker, Al-Naimi's briefest utterances moved markets. But it wasn't always that way. Al-Naimi was born into abject poverty as a nomadic Bedouin in the 1930s, just as US companies were discovering vast quantities of oil under the baking Arabian deserts. From his first job as a shepherd boy, aged four, to his appointment to one of the most powerful political and economic jobs in the world, Out of the Desert charts Al-Naimi's extraordinary rise to power. Described by Alan Greenspan as 'the most powerful man you've never heard of', Al-Naimi's incredible journey proves that anyone can make it - even a poor Bedouin shepherd boy. This is his exclusive inside story of power, politics and oil.

## Editions

### Out of the Desert

- Publisher: Penguin
- Medium: ebook
- ISBN: 978-02-4197-839-9
- Published: 2016-11-03
- Language: en_GB