By coincidence this year have had the opportunity to Arab countries, the last one was Cairo, Egypt. It surprised positively in the way it is developed, previously had talked with people how had visited the country and my expirience there was very rewarding and postive in all senses.
Doing a light (personal) analysis of the Middle East, I consider all power (Economic, Political and Religious) is widespread distributed along the Region, for good and bad. For instance I would consider Saudi Arabia to be the Religious epicenter (for the Islamic world), while United Arab Emirated holding the Economic Capital, and Egypt the Political State that makes a continuos big effort to bring balance to the whole Region; so the importance of keeping stability is essential and continuity in these three countries is very important for the whole region.
Want to share a small insight I am exposed to, everytime I visit the Arab world, the more I get immerse in to this culture, the more interesting thing I find.
First, a singer called Vanessa Longa, she started a singer career in April 2009, so this video was very popular, dont exactly kwno where she's from. but is very interesting, her music, the video, it delivers something special 'through' both.
Another video is one I recorded directly from the tv, and an well know american show from the 80's !, some of you might remember.,