Marah Bukai

Head of the Washington-Based Al Waref Institute and Professor of Contemporary Islam at Georgetown University, Centre for Continuing and Professional Education
"I agree with Dr Abdul Aziz's statement about the chaotic situation facing the Arab world but disagree Arabs have reached their lowest point. At the beginning of the millennium we thought Arabs had come to their lowest point and it was about time to rebound, but that proved to be wrong. We thought the establishment of a sort of democracy in Iraq and the removal of Saddam would help in producing democracy in the Arab world but this did not happen."