Now I want to read "Cities of Salt" again. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cities_of_Salt https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cities_of_Salt I suppose there's much fi

Now I want to read "Cities of Salt" again. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cities_of_Salt https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cities_of_Salt I suppose there's much fine literature about how some kind of resource broke the old society there. But for some reason, that CNN piece made me think about Cities of Salt, which starts with how some arabs lost when oil came.