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Dhahran

City in eastern Saudi Arabia near the Gulf coast, opposite Bahrain Island; population (1993) 73,700. It was used as a military base during the Gulf War of 1991.

The administrative headquarters of Aramco (Arabian-American Oil Company), holders of the major concessions, and of the Saudi government railroad, it is connected with the Abqaiq oilfields by pipelines and is on the railway from Damman to Riyadh. There is an airport, and a Petroleum and Mineral Institute was opened in 1964.



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Expatriate is a 340-page novel by Bud Rudesill in which he draws upon his own experiences as a geology technician, instructor, and research assistant in Dhahran, Saudi Arabia (as well as his wife's experiences in Khamis Mushayt and Riyadh as a nurse) to tell the fictional story of Cullen Mackenzie, the son of a geologist who grew up in Saudi Arabia during the 1950s and eventually returned to the U.
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