Introduction

As we progress in history we clearly see how societies changed from maternal to paternal model, in some part of the world we can see some remnant of the maternal era, and in others like in the Eastern regions of the world, we clearly see the dominance of the Male in the society.

I like to begin by stating the following: to many people I am not qualified to write about Middle Eastern Male psychology, and I am not. I simply started observing and comparing male behaviors, and came up with the idea of writing about it, all what is written below is from observation and a personal point of view, from talks with friends and acquaintances, and I have no scientific claim and no written research references about the issue at hand. (Although I couldn’t find any reference about the subject when I did my search)

During the process of growing up, one starts contemplating, analyzing and looking deeply into the psychology of behaviors of the people surrounding him.

Being an American from a Syrian upbringing, living for a long period of my adult married life in Saudi while my husband pursued his banking career, and meeting people from different part of the world, especially from different Middle East countries, made me over the years contemplate the idea of writing about the psychology of Middle Eastern men. Why did I come with this idea??

Simply because Middle Eastern men psyches differs from the Europeans or Americans.