Middle East, fragmented societies, what future?
Indeed, our Middle East is "fragmented": many countries, and within these countries, many ethnical identities, many religions, and within the one religion many confessions. In the Arab Middle-East societies two religions, Islam and Christianity, are present and in the todays Middle East, after the creation of the State of Israel, the three monotheistic religions exist side by side and have their different respective role and influence on the society. Islam and Arabic language and culture are the basic common factor in the Arab societies of the Middle-East. At the same time, the potential of fragmentation is big given its religious and ethnical pluralism.