[caption id="attachment_55247339" align="alignnone" width="620"] A Libyan security officer walks by an oil drill on March 23, 2013 at the Al-Ghani oil field, belonging to Libya's Harouge Oil…

[caption id="attachment_55247025" align="alignnone" width="620"] Employees prepare Arabic-style ice cream by beating it vigorously with enormous wooden mallets to crush any ice and remove any air at…

[caption id="attachment_55245923" align="alignnone" width="620"] Iranians shop at the main old bazaar in Tehran on June 1, 2013. (ATTA KENARE/AFP/Getty Images)[/caption]Iran’s 1979 revolution still…

[caption id="attachment_55245553" align="alignnone" width="620"] A banker carries a load of money as he walks past an image of the Syrian president, Bashar Al-Assad, at a bank in the capital,…

[caption id="attachment_55245665" align="alignnone" width="620"] A female worker prepares parts of Kalashnikov machine guns at the Kalashnikov manufacturing plant on September 18, 2013 in Izhevsk,…

[caption id="attachment_55244690" align="alignnone" width="620"] Gazprom security men stand guard in front of a drilling platform at an oilfield near the Iraqi city of Badra, south of Baghdad, on…

[caption id="attachment_55244622" align="alignnone" width="594"] Apartment blocks line the edge of a field in the fertile Egyptian Delta region of Al-Menofeya. (Marco Longari/AFP/Getty Images)[…

[caption id="attachment_55244083" align="alignnone" width="620"] View of Qatar Petroleum (QP), a state-owned corporation established in 1974 and responsible for all phases of the oil and gas industry…

[caption id="attachment_55243466" align="alignnone" width="620"] A Lebanese bank employee counts money at a bank in Beirut on July 21, 2009. JOSEPH BARRAK/AFP/Getty Images[/caption] Bankers are not…

[caption id="attachment_55243306" align="alignnone" width="620"] The sun sets behind the Moroccan flag during Throne Day Celebrations on July 30, 2006 in Rabat, Morocco. CHRIS JACKSON/Getty Images[…