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Saudi Arabia can seem willfully backward, but it was one of the first countries in the Middle East to have television; in the 1950s the oil giant Aramco brought "I Love Lucy" and "Bonanza" to its employees.
"Because Aramco is founding the university, I believe it will have freedom," said Abdulmalik A. Aljinaidi, dean of the research and consultation institute at King Abdulaziz University, Jidda's biggest, with more than 40,000 students.
Monday is the official Aramco day off and an hour before dawn I haven't yet gone to bed and I've just switched from sadiki to coffee.
I was invited to visit Aramco's oil museum in Dhahran, but that is something a Saudi schoolchild can do on a field trip.
I've got a year-long gig in Saudi Arabia, subcontracted by Aramco Oil, to make slide/tape training programs, which means I fly around in helicopters taking pictures on oil rigs and at gas-oil separation plants.
In the Haradh-III subsection of Ghawar, brought online in 2006, Aramco used only 32 wells to achieve 300,000 barrels a day of capacity.
"I think I was the first lady before the board, at least from the Aramco side," she says.
"I am putting on fresh reserves, so what peak are you talking about?" asks Amin Al-Nasser, Aramco's senior vice president of exploration and production.
Aramco rules.
But KAEC is Aramco with a twist.
Aramco declined to comment for this story.
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