Summary of Ben Hubbard's MBS

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Please note: This is a companion version & not the original book.
Sample Book Insights:
#1 The British-Algerian man teaching at an elite school in Jeddah on Saudi Arabia’s west coast got a unique job offer. A prince named Salman bin Abdulaziz was coming to town with his wife and children, and they were looking for an English tutor.
#2 The Al Saud were a dynasty that had twice failed to create a kingdom in central Arabia before succeeding so phenomenally that the desert-dwellers who had pioneered the idea would have been hard pressed to believe how it ended up. In the mid-1700s, they created the first Saudi proto-state around their home village of Diriyah.
#3 The rise of Saudi Arabia’s oil reserves in the 1930s attracted speculators, technicians, oil companies, and Western governments seeking access to the kingdom’s black gold. The Saudis became one of the world’s wealthiest dynasties.
#4 Salman was born in 1953, three years after the foundation of Saudi Arabia. He was the governor of Riyadh Province, and his main duty was to receive subjects who needed help. He had many children with his first wife, Sultana bint Turki Al Sudairi.

Sujets

• Middle East
• World

Informations

• Publié par: Everest Media LLC
• Date de parution: 10 avril 2022
• Nombre de lectures: 0
• EAN13: 9781669381952
• Langue: English
• Poids de l'ouvrage: 1 Mo

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Insights on Ben Hubbard's MBS
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Insights from Chapter 1

#1

The British-Algerian man teaching at an elite school in Jeddah on Saudi Arabia’s west coast got a unique job offer. A prince named Salman bin Abdulaziz was coming to town with his wife and children, and they were looking for an English tutor.

#2

The Al Saud were a dynasty that had twice failed to create a kingdom in central Arabia before succeeding so phenomenally that the desert-dwellers who had pioneered the idea would have been hard pressed to believe how it ended up. In the mid-1700s, they created the first Saudi proto-state around their home village of Diriyah.

#3

The rise of Saudi Arabia’s oil reserves in the 1930s attracted speculators, technicians, oil companies, and Western governments seeking access to the kingdom’s black gold. The Saudis became one of the world’s wealthiest dynasties.

#4

Salman was born in 1953, three years after the foundation of Saudi Arabia. He was the governor of Riyadh Province, and his main duty was to receive subjects who needed help. He had many children with his first wife, Sultana bint Turki Al Sudairi.

#5

The family of Sultana, Salman’s first wife, was extremely wealthy. The sixth son of the 25th son of the founding king, MBS, grew up steeped in inherited and unearned privilege. He would later say that his parents treated him and his brothers extremely well, which made him stronger.

#6

MBS’s youth was spent between his two families. He spent time with his father, Salman, who was the governor of Saudi Arabia, and his brother Fahd, who died of a heart attack in 2001. MBS’s mother pressed Salman to spend more time with him, and the young prince often shadowed his father.

#7

MBS’s father immersed him in contemporary Arabia, but he was also a son of the twenty-first century. He developed a reputation for misbehaving as a teenager, and he would lose himself in videogames.

#8

MBS was far from the top of the family tree, and he knew it. His father had no fortune, and MBS realized during his teens that compared to other senior royals his father had no money.

#9

MBS, now 32, began plotting his political career around 2011, when his father elevated him to crown prince. He never publicly discussed when he began plotting his career, but he has talked about his desire to be a new kind of ruler.

#10

In the spring of 2014, Joseph Westphal arrived in Riyadh as President Obama’s ambassador to Saudi Arabia. He was a tall, large, avuncular man whose back-slapping style annoyed more hard-driving members of the administration. But it worked well with the Saudis.

#11

I thought that Salman was extremely special, and I believed that he was destined to be a leader. He had the platform, as his father, King Abdullah, was busy and often ill.
Insights from Chapter 2

#1

I had grown accustomed to hearing Arabs blame Saudi Arabia for all sorts of ills, from the rise of particular political parties or trends to funding or inspiring terrorist groups like the Islamic State and Al Qaeda. But the mechanics of Saudi influence seemed invisible.

#2

I was surprised by the kingdom’s conservatism, and how Wahhabism shaped every aspect of life. In public, nearly all women wore baggy black gowns called abayas that hid their forms, turning them into billowing black figures.

#3

There were not many public places for