Sad but Tire.

It was not the Ottomans who brought misery to Arab people by conquering their lands and burying their culture deep below. It was Arabs' incompetence that led Ottomans to seize their lands in the first place. Especially, after the scholar Imam gazzali's teachings, Arabic culture and science fell into some kind of stagnation. Mongol conquests took what is left behind and striped middle eastern countries naked. Then Ottomans came and find nothing but the sand...

Such western based mind's old-fashion "nationalistic" views are nothing but the nonsense. There were nothing left when the Ottomans came. All forms of art eas long forbidden and forgotten...