The author of fifteen novels, his masterwork is the Cities of Salt quintet that followed the evolution of the Arabian peninsula as its traditional bedouin culture is transformed by the oil boom.

The quintet begins with Al-tih ( 1984, Cities of Salt ) in the desert oasis of Wadi al-Uyoun that is disrupted by the arrival of western oilmen in an image similar to that of the disrupted village of Chinua Achebe's Things Fall Apart.

Cities of Salt ( Cities of Salt Trilogy, Vol 1 ), New York: Vintage Books.

The Trench ( Cities of Salt Trilogy, Vol 2 ), New York: Vintage Books.

Variations on Night and Day ( Cities of Salt Trilogy, Vol 3 ), New York: Vintage Books.

Atlanta has 21 sister cities, as designated by Sister Cities International, Inc. ( SCI ):

Also in the Twin Cities area, the local chapter of the Alliance Française has hosted an annual event for years at varying locations with a competition for the " Best Baguette of the Twin Cities.

The Quad Cities also consists of neighboring Bettendorf and the Illinois cities of Moline, East Moline, and Rock Island and has an population estimate of 381, 342.

The city has a Class A minor league baseball team, the Quad Cities River Bandits.

Unlike The Settlers of Catan and Cities & Knights of Catan, in which the only random element of setup is the placement of land tiles, number tokens, and harbors in an identically-shaped playing area, Seafarers of Catan has a number of different scenarios or maps from which to choose.

He has also designed many card games such as Lost Cities, Schotten-Totten, and Blue Moon, and the cooperative board game The Lord of the Rings.

An interesting phenomenon has been the continuing collaboration between French and Japanese animators, resulting in a series of French-Japanese cartoons / anime, including such titles as Ulysses 31 ( 1981 ), The Mysterious Cities of Gold ( 1982 ), and more recently, Ōban Star-Racers ( 2006 ).

The United Nations Global Compact Cities Programme has defined sustainable political development is a way that broadens the usual definition beyond states and governance.

Other projects Gilliam has been trying to get off the ground since the 1990s are an adaptation of Charles Dickens ' A Tale of Two Cities ( starring Mel Gibson ), an adaptation of A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court by Mark Twain ( which has been adapted into movies several times before ), and a script titled The Defective Detective that Gilliam has co-authored with Richard LaGravenese ( who wrote Gilliam's The Fisher King before ).

In total Toledo has nine sister cities, as designated by Sister Cities International ( SCI ):

Victoria has five Sister Cities:

" The Carnival has taken place in an organized form since 1991 ; in 1994, Strumica became a member of FECC and in 1998 hosted the XVIII International Congress of Carnival Cities.

Portland has four sister cities, as designated by Sister Cities International ( SCI ):

Corvallis has three sister cities, as designated by Sister Cities International:

Mexico City has recently been integrating rapidly, doing much better than many cities in a sample conducted by the Intercultural Cities Index ( being the only non-European city, alongside Montreal, on the index ).

The state has a light rail line, Corridor Cities Transitway or " CCT ", planned for the western portion of the city starting at Shady Grove Metro Station and connecting all the high density western Gaithersburg neighborhoods with a total of eight stops planned in the city.

Richmond has seven sister cities, as designated by the Sister Cities International, Inc .:

Galveston has six sister cities, as designated by Sister Cities International:

Georgetown has several sister cities, as designated by Sister Cities International:

This suggestion is usually shunned by residents of the other cities, for the simple reason that " Quad-Cities " doesn't sound as good ( as well as the fact that West Richland has a much smaller presence compared to the three major cities ) as well as the fact that there is already a Quad Cities on the Mississippi River with Davenport and Bettendorf in Iowa, Rock Island and Moline in Illinois.

Sofia has been ranked by the Globalization and World Cities Research Network as a beta-world city.

Dmitry Kabargin has been serving as a President of The Greater St Louis-Samara Sister Cities Committee since 2007.

Even when such a sentence might have been imposed, the Cities of Refuge and other sanctuaries, were at hand for those unintentionally guilty of capital offences.

Somewhere, perhaps on the southeastern shore, would be the cities mentioned in the Book of Genesis which were said to have been destroyed in the time of Abraham: Sodom and Gomorra ( Genesis 18 ) and the three other " Cities of the Plain "-Admah, Zeboim and Zoar ( Deuteronomy 29: 23 ).

Cities such as Tauranga, Nelson and, to a lesser extent, Auckland have been somewhat influenced by German culture and values.

Tiberias has been venerated in Judaism since the middle of the 2nd century CE and since the 16th century has been considered one of Judaism's Four Holy Cities, along with Jerusalem, Hebron and Safed.

Reaching as high as 1st place ( tied ) in 2007, Lynchburg has been within the Top 10 Digital Cities survey for its population since the survey's inception in 2004.

Since the 1960s, northeastern Ohio and much of the rest of the Inland North have been affected by the Northern Cities Vowel Shift ( abbreviated " NCS ").

A private airport, Twin Cities Airport ( code 39AR ), was operational to the southeast of the city, but has been closed for many years.

The City of Waterloo also has been recognized for its work through Sister Cities International.

" Portaloo " has been honored with seven coveted Readers Digest awards for its Sister Cities program.

For most of its existence, Eden Prairie has been a slow-growing, pastoral village on the far southwestern fringes of the Twin Cities area.

In recent decades, there has been a good deal of new housing development on the outskirts of the city, and there is a substantial population that commutes daily to the Twin Cities.

The YMCA camp Nan A Bo Sho, an overnight camp in Lakewood owned by the YMCA Fox Cities of Appleton, has been in operation since 1964.

Fox Cities Online ( FOCOL ) is a community network in the Fox Cities region of Wisconsin that has been in operation since the early 1990s.

Since 1926 there has been a stylization of the Holsten Gate in the emblem of the German Association of Cities ( Deutscher Städtetag DST ).

The film was September 1955's Seven Cities of Gold, with Richard Egan, who had been ninth-billed as a vicious fighting machine and rapist of ingenue Debra Paget in the previous year's Demetrius and the Gladiators and was now receiving star build-up and first billing ; Anthony Quinn was billed second.

Bent, whose archaeological experience had all been in Greece and Asia Minor, stated in The Ruined Cities of Mashonaland ( 1891 ) that the ruins revealed either the Phoenicians or the Arabs as builders.

The famous sign, located atop the building housing the Barnes and Noble Boston University bookstore on nearby Kenmore Square, was erected in 1965, replacing a " Cities Service " sign ( Citgo's old name ) that had been there previously.