Summary of Ben Hubbard's MBS

By IRB Media

Please note: This is a companion version & not the original book.

#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.

• Language: English
• Publisher: IRB Media
• Release date: Apr 7, 2022
• ISBN: 9781669381952

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Insights on Ben Hubbard's MBS

Contents

Insights from Chapter 1

Insights from Chapter 2

Insights from Chapter 3

Insights from Chapter 4

Insights from Chapter 5

Insights from Chapter 6

Insights from Chapter 7

Insights from Chapter 8

Insights from Chapter 9

Insights from Chapter 10

Insights from Chapter 11

Insights from Chapter 12

Insights from Chapter 13

Insights from Chapter 14

Insights from Chapter 15

Insights from Chapter 16

Insights from Chapter 17

Insights from Chapter 18

Insights from Chapter 19

Insights from Chapter 20

Insights from Chapter 21

Insights from Chapter 22

Insights from Chapter 23

Insights from Chapter 24

Insights from Chapter 25

Insights from Chapter 26

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