The History

1- How the history of the region affected the Middle Eastern men behaviors


The Middle Eastern region is strategically situated in the middle of all trade roads, the influx of strangers coming into the cities made the male population eager to protect their female, from changes, from other foreign males, from soldiers and wars and from exposures to different ideas and life styles.

As a result the women were confined to their homes; the opportunity of education and of progress was abolished, and the society changed from a flourishing one during the Omayyad to a closed ignorant backward one at the beginning of the 19th century.

The women position declined while the male gained strengths, they controlled their female lives, money and future.

Being uneducated themselves, working in trade (Damasenes are known to be excellent trade men) the men were unable to share trust or delegate power, the father held total control which is passed to the eldest once the father is deceased or retired.

The female role was confined within the walls of their homes. Some were not even allowed out of their homes during a lifetime. The mother is the dominant figure in the house, where sons and daughters in law shared their lives (rarely in wealthy families, the sons move to their own place).
The policies of governing the house lies in the hand of the mother, it is a blessing if she has a well balanced strong personality, to control the family, and make them live together, peacefully and in harmony.
The mother role subsides when the head of the family is present and she recedes to the shadows and he becomes the sole ruler. Sometimes she coheres and coaches him (look in how Middle Eastern female dealt with their male)

This carefully closed society, as a result of many wars and many foreign forces governing the area, succeeded in creating a distinctive male personality.