At present, four political generations co-exist on the region’s socio-political map. The outgoing leadership generation – that of Arafat, King Hussein or Hafiz al-Assad, King Fahd and President Mubarak – was born before 1935 and has determined events in the Middle East since the 1970’s.
目前，这个地区的社会政治地图上有四代政治领导人共存。逐渐离任的一代领导人——即阿拉法特、侯赛因国王或哈菲兹·阿萨德、法德国王和穆巴拉克总统一代——出生于1935年以前，从20世纪70年代以来就决定着中东的事务。