This cannot be accurate, for these kind of surveys do not show the wide difference between classes in major issues.
Such a survey is merely a snapshot that refletcs the blockage towards full capitalist "development" and therefore the dominance of bourgeois norms (e.g. sexual and gender norms), the failure of modernisation of the 1950 and 1960s, the development of rentier economies, especially in the Gulf, instead of industrialisation on the one hand and the defeat of the 2011 revolution on the other.
As for the threat of the US and Israel, the Arab world is still a very strategic battleground where local ruling classes and international ones have major and common interests in restructuring or preserving the existing order.
Major questions that could be included in the survey, and that could provide a picture beyond the symptoms, are the type of politcal regime and economic system the Arab countries need, and how should the wealth be exploited and distributed, etc. These questions could not be added because the regimes would not have accepted them in the survey or because the surveyors themselves might not be intetested in including them.
Here is the what, but one needs to examine the why since the nationalist revolutions of the mid-20 century.
"The Arab world in seven charts"
Such a survey is merely a snapshot that refletcs the blockage towards full capitalist "development" and therefore the dominance of bourgeois norms (e.g. sexual and gender norms), the failure of modernisation of the 1950 and 1960s, the development of rentier economies, especially in the Gulf, instead of industrialisation on the one hand and the defeat of the 2011 revolution on the other.
As for the threat of the US and Israel, the Arab world is still a very strategic battleground where local ruling classes and international ones have major and common interests in restructuring or preserving the existing order.
Major questions that could be included in the survey, and that could provide a picture beyond the symptoms, are the type of politcal regime and economic system the Arab countries need, and how should the wealth be exploited and distributed, etc. These questions could not be added because the regimes would not have accepted them in the survey or because the surveyors themselves might not be intetested in including them.
Here is the what, but one needs to examine the why since the nationalist revolutions of the mid-20 century.
"The Arab world in seven charts"
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