Date of Publication :23rd March 2023

Abstract: The modern culture is a hydro-carbon culture. Our lives are saturated in oil. Oil and its myriad refined products determine how and where we live, move, work, play and consume. Oil shapes our physical and political landscapes. To think about oil is not solely to think about automobiles, derricks, oil spills etc. but the computer or the mobiles we are using would not have come to us without this black liquid gold. Before colonization of the land and its resources, people of Saudi were poor nomadic tribes but they were happy with the life they lived and praised it extravagantly. But with Western modernity, crisis and confusion arose among the Arabs. The natives were exiled after the destruction of their ecosystem. Their life is thrown into a constant state of unrest after the arrival of the Americans. Oil becomes the base structure that governs the push, pressure and stay factors of the locals as well as it also supports displacement, exile and resettlement. The paper expressed how on the pretexts of development, modernization and civilization, geopolitics and power of oil along with environmental racism is practised. The locals started working as labours in their own place and were treated as disposable resources and recipe for disaster by the oil company. The traditional nomadic society of the unknown Wadi, and the Bedouin community were forced to remould themselves in the image of western societies. These are the things that the government hides from the public and the journalists don’t print. Therefore, the present paper will discuss how hydro-carbon genre or oil documents the social, cultural, economic and ecological impacts on Arab-Islamic world.

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