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I'm glad the Arab world is finally opening up, in the sense that apart from its got so much culture and history to share, it's also generally been defined and construed by the western media. By default then, it delegates the voice to define itself to others and loses a sense of self-identity and along the way, a sense of self-respect. Little by little, in many industries, like Life Sciences, Business and the such, connections are being made with the outside world.

I once asked an Iranian girl at the Science musollah, since she's on an A*star scholarship doing her masters in NUS (and there are several in Science and Engineering) there has got to be a significant amount of research being done over in the Middle East, but so much is unknown and unseen in international journals (at least the few that I do check up for my projects). She said there is a lot of research being done over in her home country, but it just doesn't get its way into internationally recognised journals for some reason that she can't construe either.

But well, there are steps taken, and from there I hope the Middle East as a whole, with its wonderful insights into human identity, culture and diversity would be able to be shared with the world.


And I can finally be proud of a culture that's been isolated from me for so long.