Fire in the Hole

There was an era when the Islamic nations were so much synchronized in their ideologies that we gave them the ‘Islamic nations’ tag. There was a time, when the rulers of the Islamic world lived as absolute monarchs ruling their land for decades smoothly. People say that the time moves slowly in the Middle East, that Mubarak has ruled Egypt for 30 years, that Saddam had ruled Iraq for 24 years and that nothing has changed in Yemen since the times of Sindbad. But well, time is not a static phenomenon.