Sand to sea: The oil earnings flowing from the most profitable company in history are helping the Saudi kingdom shake up the global economy— and the old geopolitical order.
COURTESY OF SAUDI ARAMCO (2)
For generations, the city of Cannes in the South of France has been famous for its glitzy film festival, where the world’s movie stars strut down the red carpet every spring amid adoring fans and clicking cameras. But in March, another group of A-listers arrived on the red carpet, this time not from Hollywood, but from a country that until recently was shrouded in insular secrecy: Saudi Arabia.
