Arthur P. Clark

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Arthur P. Clark is a former assistant editor of AramcoWorld, editor of Al-Ayyam Al-Jamilah, the magazine for Aramco retirees, and is actively involved in the curation of antiquities and archive materials for Aramco.

Articles by Arthur P. Clark

Meet Me at the Mudhif

Meet Me at the Mudhif

Dozens of volunteers joined together in Houston, Texas, to construct a mudhif, a reed structure dating back 5,000 years to the Mesopotamian marshes of southern Iraq. To this day the hut serves as a town hall for Marsh Arabs to meet with their sheikh. In Houston, it also served as a meeting place—for some of the city’s 4,000 Iraqis and their fellow Houstonians to share insights into an ancient society and gain a sense of community.
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FirstLook: A Lens and a Legacy

FirstLook: A Lens and a Legacy

As a young man in 1948, Shaikh Amin traveled from newly established Pakistan to accept a job in the storehouse of Aramco in Dhahran, Saudi Arabia. He had put away part of his salary, and within a few years of joining the oil company, he saved enough money to buy a Rolleicord twin-lens reflex camera. He enrolled in a photography course by correspondence from the US and began to pick up freelance jobs, and in 1965 he qualified for a trainee post with the company’s Photo Unit.
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Returning Treasures to the Kingdom

Returning Treasures to the Kingdom

Time was that a picnic in any of Saudi Arabia’s deserts might turn up an ancient pot or other artifact. Since 2012 more than 100 people have given back thousands of informally gathered artifacts in a uniquely successful, goodwill-based antiquities preservation campaign.
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