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In the Arab world, socialists and pioneers of social media shared images of some of the "sleeping" Arab leaders at the recent Arab summit in Tunis late last month.
Besides the credibility of the story of these images in which some leaders seem asleep, without all being verified, we all saw this Arab leader or that he slept at an Arab summit or even international.
Lebanese French daily L'Orient le Jour suggested that one of the reasons for the "sleep of Arab leaders" is due to aging. The Arab world, according to the newspaper itself, "is ruled by old blacks".
The age of Arab leaders reflects the reality: Tunisian President Béji Kayed Sibsi is 93 and the age of 90 is Sheikh Sabah Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah. Lebanese President Michel Aoun and Saudi King Salman bin Abdul Aziz al-Saud are 84, and Mahmoud Abbas, the Palestinian president, has crossed 83rd.
According to a UN report, the aging of the population contrasts sharply with the age group of Arab societies, where the age of two thirds of Arab countries is only 30 years old.
But the contradiction, according to the same source, between the ruling class and the people is not limited to Arab societies, but there is also a huge difference between the ages of some world leaders and those of Arab leaders. Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, for example, is 47, while French President Emmanuel Macaron, 41, and Austrian Chancellor Sebastian Cruz are only 36 years old.
"There are two trends in the world today: the first is to renew the ruling generation and the second to leave the old regime," said a Lebanese academic.
The newspaper also mentions other, younger Arab leaders with power in their own country but not fully in power, including Lebanese Prime Minister Saad Hariri, 49, emir Sheikh Hamad bin Tamim bin Hamad al-Thani, 39 years old. Prince Mohammed bin Salman (33 years old).
However, Lorient Le Jour claims that all these leaders inherited power, while the Arab world is considered the most post-African region of the world.
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