Sorry, but the world is people and people don't change that much - especially in the Middle-East. Opinions and ideas basically remain constant. Form alters, function very, very rarely.
I couldn't disagree more. I think if anything the history of most of the last two centuries has been one of people changing their opinions and ideas in enormously revolutionary ways across the world, including in the Middle East, at a higher rate than has ever before existed in human history.