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He wrote in his diary, according to Agence France-Presse, that after meeting Mubarak in 2009 in the Egyptian capital, Cairo, “he gave the impression that he would become very familiar in his dealings with aging autocrats, which is that they are closed in on themselves. themselves within their palaces, and every interaction with them is through employees. Fanatics and humiliators that surround them, since they are unable to distinguish between their personal interests and the interests of their people ”.
On the same trip he made in 2009, Obama said he visited Saudi Arabia, and according to Agence France-Presse, “he left a devastating impression on her and her strict separation of genders and religious norms.”
Obama wrote that he was shocked by the feeling of oppression and sadness engendered by such a place that he practiced segregation, and said: “As if suddenly entering a world where all colors are off.”
The former US president also revealed that the royal palace tried to give him luxury jewelry at the time of his visit.
According to the British newspaper The Independent, “Barack Obama recalls in his new diary when he asked the late Saudi monarch, King Abdullah bin Abdulaziz Al Saud, at an official dinner in 2009, how he managed to keep his home with his 12 wives and 40 children. . Dozens of grandchildren and great-grandchildren. “The Saudi monarch’s response was:” The matter is more complicated than Middle East politics.
The memoirs of the 44th president of the United States, Barack Obama, were published this Tuesday, and are divided into two parts, which takes readers in the first part to his childhood in Hawaii and ends with the raid during his reign of the leader of Al Qaeda, Osama bin Laden in 2011, which led to his death.
