Jordanian Writer: The Arabs Lag Behind In All Areas – As The World Moves Forward | MEMRI

On January 6, 2016, Jordanian journalist, writer, and political analyst Jihad Al-Mansi wrote in the Jordanian daily Al-Ghad, under the title „Careful, The Car Is In Reverse!“, about what he termed Arab society’s position at the bottom of global rankings in science, culture, human and women’s rights, and the war on corruption. He added that it lags behind the rest of the quickly advancing world which „has overtaken us by centuries, perhaps millennia.“