I still use a rotary telephone (tough old piece of indestructible Western Electric equipment from the days when AT&T owned the phones and thus wanted to save on the cost of repairing and replacing them) that has better sound quality than the cheaply made electronic garbage available today. However, I do agree that there is no prospect of a unified Arab state anytime soon. The various petty dictators and monarchs of the Arab world would never willing allow it, but sooner or later there will be a second Saladin to drive out the European invaders just as the first one did.
The first Saladin was not so bad.
