073. Arab World's Failure to Develop
73. The Arab scholars who composed the report concluded that the political culture of the Arab world accounted for its failure to develop despite the oil revenues and new technology of the previous half a century, for “the barren, ossified life of so many Arab countries,” (Robert Fisk, “UN Highlights Uncomfortable Truths for Arab World,” The Independent, 3 July 2002. For a disturbing “anthropological” view of Islam in the mid-decade of the aughts, see Akbar Ahmed, Journey into Islam: The Crisis of Globalization (Washington, D.C.: Brookings Institution, 2007).
