ARAMCO

Andrea Smith, Publicist National print and online campaign Social Media campaign Promotion through: www.daylightbooks.org Author Ayesha Malik's website: http://www.ayeshamalikphotography.com/ Author Ayesha Malik's personal marketing efforts: Foldout flyer as part of a grassroots and guerilla marketing approach. Door-to-door marketing style, and handout or leave them in places (galleries, coffee shops, book stores, any kind of store where it make sense, universities). Contact the Aramco office in NY. Promotion through New York Times, Time Magazine, Vice Magazine, and Le Monde, Brownbook. Advertise in AramcoWorld, a magazine that has a wide reach to both Aramcons and others. Book signings and limited edition prints.

ARAMCO, documents life inside Dhahran, a compound originally built for the American workers of the wealthy Saudi Arabian Oil Company.In ARAMCO: Above the Oil Fields, Ayesha Malik delivers a personalized account of life within Dhahran, Saudi Arabia, a gated community originally created as a home for American employees of the Arabian American Oil Company, now known as Saudi Aramco. This small town houses the world's wealthiest company with the world's largest energy reserves. in 2018, as part of Saudi ARabia's Vision 2030 plan, the public sale of a percentage of the company is expected to be the biggest IPO in history, valued at around $2 trillion. Malik shares the surprising warmth, familiarity, and timelessness of this 22-and-a-half square-mile place that so many Aramcons call home. Her photographs raise conversations about perception and preconceived ideas regarding a home that is neither fully Saudi nor fully American, a home unlike any other.