Not to scare you or anything but I've been sitting today today and it came up to me that, how come many of my foreign friends don't know about many scary stories we were told while younger either to make us go to sleep ironically, or to simply scare us away like grandma used to do. I'm going to list the top 3 most known stories every arab knows, or heard of. Aisha Kandisha/ La Contesa Aisha Kandisha is a very known Moroccan legend, although it is known in the whole arab world, the story is as it goes: Aisha was a Moroccan citizen, she lived in a village, nobody mentions where when they tell the story but most likely to be situated in the north of Morocco because that region was most affected by the the Portuguese cololization. One day they attacked Aisha's village and killed her husband, for no apparent reason obviously, they're european colonizers what did you expect, anyways, Aisha decided to revenge, so she started seducing Portuguese soldiers into a forest an...
I know this post is a bit late, looking that Forbes’s top 100 business was published a while ago, but I was surfing the net when I saw that Aramco’s shares have gone up. And it’s often up… So I did some research on how Aramco’s on top list with Facebook and Apple, The tech giants. -The Founding Before I start, you have to realize that Saudi Arabia, before the discovery of oil, was literal disert. The economy was bad and it's currently all, or most of is based on oil. The founding of Aramco goes all the way back to 1933, it was initially an agreement between Saydi Arabia and the standard oil company of California. Little did they know it was going to be one of the greatest business deals of the century, everyone was beneficial, Saudi Arabia thrived like never before thanks to the fortune Saudi Land was sitting on. And that’s Black gold, Oil. It also took them roughly 30 years to hit the milestone of 5 billion barrels made. Now those are some real statistics. It wasn't until t...