OPINION

Silly 'Arab' soap opera lights the fires of mistrust

News, Kong Rithdee, Published on 24/08/2013

» The Middle East becomes a scene of a great romance. The people are cool. The camels are cute. The sky is blue, boundless, and the smooth ridges of the sand dunes are as seductive as the chiselled face of the beardless Muslim sheikh, whose handsome head is wrapped in a chequered keffiyeh.