PADIA: Public Affairs Digital Image Archive

"Aramco Services Company makes the PADIA available to the general public to increase cross-cultural understanding. Comprising some 30,000 photographs, it is one of the world''s largest royalty-free photographic archives specializing in contemporary cultural and geographical images of the Middle East and the Islamic world. Most of the photographs are published and unpublished images from the bimonthly magazine Aramco World , 1964-2000, and its successor, Saudi Aramco World , to the present, as well as several historical collections from the early 20th century."