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I do understand what I used to be but what about you (2)?
Published in Alriyadh on 10 - 01 - 2014

In Yesterday's articles, When I compared between the existence reality of Arab Peninsula and the reality of most Arab countries as two realties which are totally different; I clarified and mentioned that when our society managed to depart its bedouinism, poverty, limited abilities and lack of real multiple education, especially the scientific one which scientific diversity has been achieved just recently where the time difference had been twenty years as I mentioned but I think that it is longer than this; most countries of the Arab World had established relationships with the Western countries, in addition to the existed colonialism relationships. In both cases, there had been a difference in regard to information, real living and scientific abilities that most Arab countries have got if compared with Arab Peninsula reality of simplicity and total abandonment of any scientific or civil existence; especially if we consider that Arab improvement relationships technically, culturally and in regard to standard of living might have exceeded our deserts, which had been isolated from any Arab neighboring countries, by a period of time that exceeds a hundred years.
What I care for here is to look at the Kingdom's take-off reality during the era of Abdul Aziz and the kings who followed him and compare it with the cultural, artistic and economic take-offs of most Arab countries.
The historical aspect that should be noted when that desert moved from living in the tent to living in the clay house in villages and then from the simplicity of the village to diversity and multiplicity of modern cities is that the leaders of this country at that time had been far sighted when they avoided any imitation or accompaniment in regard to the Arab World revolutions of that time which had been mere words rather than transformational plans. Our leaders had not been dazed by imitation as they accompanied the national convergence firmly and carefully before rushing towards the scientific and economic aspects of positive dealing without declaring any hostility with anyone. Meanwhile, the Arab World of that time which had managed to reach the level of regeneration and good education in a relatively long time used to cherish the existence of hostilities and the surface of the slogans rather than the results output, if any. In this regard, we need to know that the reality of certain countries, in particular four of them at least, had been better than their present time fifty years ago at least.
At the present time, we are witnessing the reality of numerous, distinguished and unique differences where we are coexisting the multiple friendly relationships with parties that we have no special political interests with as what combines us with them is the nature of our development needs which led to that the expansion of our relationships means the frequent multiplicity of our interests accompanied with our multiple abilities take-offs towards achieving the personal control of our reality. It is a personal control of the competent multiple capabilities of our youth and their fathers together with knowledge resources advancement.
Look at the declarations and opinions released by some strong countries about the reality of some Arab countries that used to be at the forefront of Arab sovereignty in the near past. The politically and militarily strong countries are releasing the opinions through which they seek to enter more and more into the existence of public failure found in categories that got involved in this fierce present.
We are not indebted to any country on the basis of it had provided us with the perspectives of our present time positive aspects as there is no such reality. However, we are proud of that we represent the only Arab reality which managed to achieve its own sovereignty during any time. It may be because there had been no interference temptations in the old times but we know that there had been multiple dangers in the vast fierce deserts.
We are talking about scientific and industrial towns now and multiple communications perspectives between all of these distances. Is it that what is required is to know this only? Of course not. The better thing is to make a permanent presence of the reality that had been expressed by some old neighborhoods which used to be very simple reality that we had been living.
This alone is not enough. Our history has never been easy. We want the present local young man who has become simply familiar with the civil reality of New York, London or Paris to know that the present of his demographic, economic and civil reality has become heading forward and establishing establishments and real presence which is similar to the said cities.
We want him to know how this end had started. We want the presence of artworks and other multiple literary works about the reality of the elder fathers' lives of total simplicity, painful poverty and multi-dangers difficulties. We realize that the grandfathers' history of the present sons, who represent the fathers in this present time, has not been subject to foreign influence and their (present) sufficiency of living elements has not come out of any effort of interference or sovereignty.


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