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Lunch Time For Workers in Our Back yard
The images which was taken by Charles Schroeder depicts Iranian [? or local] workers in the backyard of Schroeder's house. It portrays the way in which the locals were seen as archaic and unsophisticated: they are having lunch on the dirt ground…
Chairmen of APOC.
A quick look at the people in key positions of oil companies in the Middle East from the late 1800s to the early 1970s results in the same image across the board: white, middle-aged, Anglo-Saxon. While the initiatives of many of these oil companies…
Abadan Bazaar Street
The locals in Abadan Bazaar Street in front of the row houses that were occupied with workers.
7th and 8th Grades Overseas School
Students of the 7th and 8th grades in the Overseas Schools in Abadan in the basketball. This mode of segregated [local vs. foreigners] schools became the accepted norm of schooling in the 'company towns'. Like their parents who were segregated,…
The Dance of the Sisters
The process of mapping Middle Eastern geology in search for precious resources was quickly taken up by multinational corporations and specifically the ‘Seven Sisters’ who had claims most of the Middle East and it was these Seven companies that ruled,…
