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The actual binderArab Worldis notreligion, and would have us believe simplifying, but the TV.

This device is a member of any Arab family (member, clearly, louder) and satellite dishes are more typical of the current Arab landscape of minaretsmosques. Thanks to television that Arabs have a common language alive: theArabicClassical, that dinosaur, does little to readQuranand writing poetry, the speeches, with an air of grandeur, but not to communicate. Nobody speaks Arabic and classical, actually, many do not understand it well, as demonstrated in the continual controversy over the meanings of the verses. The regional dialects, despised by the officer, and would have become different languages ​​were it not for the TV brand, unwittingly, patterns of evolution.It is thanks to her that all Moroccans speak the Egyptian dialect and that all Algerians can laugh at like a syrupy accent Lebanese, yet, understand. Of course, the flow is never the reverse: North Africa does not produce television material exportable to other countries and, therefore, the rest of Arab North African dialects do not understand. It is also thanks to satellite channels from the Gulf orMiddle Eastall Arab dress, comb and a nose like. The TV remembers the Arab world that has its own cultural universe.

His influence, also, huge everywhere, is there unlimited. Misery (excluding the oil countries, most of the Arab world's population is poor), illiteracy and the reluctance to live out of doors makes no books, or film, or meetings in the town square to make competition.

It exists in Arab music… and if there, would like.

Because what matters is not the music, but the people. And the rest, is pure ornament.

Youtube is now availablevideo of the conference I gave at the auditorium of Arab House in Madrid to mark the Music Day (2011).

Years ago I say and write that we can not talk Arab World and proposeArab Worlds to designate the band of countries stretching from Morocco to Iraq (without Iran and Turkey, stubbornly Arabized by the Spanish press) and share language which they are named. Arab Worlds, plural, precisely to emphasize that, plurality, diversity. Neither the Arab world is Arabic, not everyone speaks in Arabic Arabic, or the Arab world (the other quid the question) a Muslim.

However, I'm rethinking the name given the revolutions and protests that take place these days in Tunis, Egypt, Yemen, Jordan, Morocco, Algeria, Saudi Arabia…

Is the Arab World?

If l @ s @ s Egipci have caught tunecid l @ s @ s is because they have been considered a sister. If ell @ s can, WE 's also. It is the solidarity of those who are up to the bow, yes, and the proof is that the Chinese government has been quick to censor the word “Egypt” search engine. It is also more.

The Arab world is diverse, clearly. But I understand that now the Copts, which are claimed descendants of the Pharaohs, do not feel different from chaouis, or these damn about them having different origins to Arab yemenitas.

There is a unique culture, no single language, not a single religion in the Arab World. But the feeling of being have their own place, apart.

The chiefs forgot maximum“divide and conquer”, standardize and bet on dissent by acallar, by crushing the difference.

Now several have forgotten who they are and have understood, finally, have a common. And they have it indoors.