The Arab World is weird: the past was better than the present. Other third countries transformed from deteriorated past to ambitious present. We, also, transformed from Bedouin and small villages in the past to a structure of powerful economy, development and universities different majors which precede many countries in present. I remember, at least forty years ago, when I used to travel to Lebanon because my late sister was under treatment there. I was as a blind-folded man whose eyes were open suddenly to extended green areas, coffee shops, pretty ladies in the streets and many newspapers booths in one street. The hairdressing salons looked like five stars hotels while my hairdresser was fixing my head between his elbows lest I might be cut by sharp razor in his hand (God only knows how you could slip away). Lebanon was totally secured: you can stay in Beirut till midnight then travel to Behamdoun or Alia without fear. When you reach Alia you think that people stay up all the night in the streets and coffee shops hearing songs everywhere. In Iraq, while I was in the secondary school, I was charmed by radio program broadcasted in Baghdad after Maghreb Prayers. I did not understand one sentence the announcer used to say it: "first: mehabbesh amber rice". Two days ago, I know the word ‘mehabbesh' meaning when my Iraqi friend told me that it means ‘shelled'. Iraq was known for agricultural crops and north touristic sites. Kurds were citizens and Shiites were not competing with Sunnis, yet there were religious communities practicing their weird rituals. Nevertheless Lebanon was safe and calm and the wage system, rights and development projects did not even exist in any Arab republic at that time. Ask the Bedouin Saudi what his friend meant, fifty years ago, when he said ‘as if I saw Egypt lights'. Yes, Egypt was the light stand of culture, arts and economical capacities plus cleaning streets with soap.
