"I make every two years a big festival in the desert. We bring maybe 5,000 persons to the desert to make African fashion true and to help African fashion to grow and to give human face for African fashion."
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That is especially true if, as posited by Matthew Simmons in his compelling new book, Twilight in the Desert: The Coming Saudi Oil Shock and the World Economy, much of the world's putative reserve oil in Saudi Arabia is not actually there .