Jim Patterson recently attended consultations with Saudi officials at the Embassy of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia in Washington DC. Topics ranged from Saudi agriculture (wheat, dates, milk), oil, women’s rights in the Kingdom, the U.S. presidential campaign, Saudi investment, economic development, social media and the market for U.S. tobacco. A discussion of Saudi culture, including traditional fashions, and Friday camel racing, also filled the agenda.
Patterson, a former diplomat, served as an Advisory Neighborhood Commissioner (ANC) for the area (Foggy Bottom) surrounding the Embassy during the attacks of September 11, 2001. The Embassy is located across the street from Watergate East.
Behind Patterson is a replica of the Great Mosque of Mecca, the world’s largest mosque, which surrounds Islam’s holiest place, the Kaaba in the Saudi Arabian city of Mecca. On the wall is a portion of a kiswa embroidered in gold and silver with verses of the Quran. (Special photo courtesy Embassy of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.)
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