From across the desert blow the winds of change ... to ripple the quiet of this ancient city's isolation.

Arab literature today—a measure of the Arab world... of all its powers, resourcefulness and vitality.

In the mountains and valleys of a verdant island... haunting echoes of three centuries of Muslim rule

On the deck of the pilot boat Muhammad told his story... how he, like his father, became Jiddah's chief pilot.

With water and gas; with heat and nuclear energy... the engineers drive the petroleum to the surface.