Arab World: Curiosity Rover and Arab Scientific Decay · Global Voices
Salah Almhamdi

Following rover Curiosity‘s successful landing on Mars, Arabs on Twitter lamented the miserable state of science in the Arab world: little scientific output and very few patents.
Saudi comedian Fahad Albutairi [ar] tweeted:
One netizen, also from Saudi Arabia, made a gloomy comparison [ar]:
Blogger Khaled Khallawi tweeted [ar]:
Cartoon by Kuwait-based cartoonist Hashimoto about Arab divisions: Two Arabs arguing: One says, “You're Shia” and the other says, “You're Sunni” and the TV screen reads, “Curiosity lands on Mars”.
Zaki Safar said [ar]:
Entrepreneur Jamal Abu-Hulaigah criticized the Arab societies marked by huge consumption [ar]:
Medina resident Abu Ru'a Aljahni criticized the modernity shaping the Arab Gulf states [ar]:
Libyan blogger Salah Al-Haddad posted [ar]: