“Arab TV” reviewed the life of politician, traveler and explorer Harry St. John Philby, or as he was later known as “Sheikh Abdullah Philby”, who is considered one of the personalities on whose shoulders the British Empire was established in the Arab East.
The episode focused on Philby’s relationship with Great Britain, which was marred by ups and downs, because he often violated the policies drawn up by London for the Arab region at the time.
In parallel, “Arab TV” showed in the program “The Strange Neighbor” an episode on the Amish Christian religious sect in the United States. It is an isolated sect that migrated from Germany and Switzerland to America centuries ago, but its members still live in a primitive way and do not use electricity or technology, as if they were historically stuck in the medieval era.
The sect, which has more than a quarter of a million members, lives in closed communities in the United States of America and in the Canadian province of Ontario, and they refuse to integrate into their surrounding society, as they live according to strict Christian religious teachings, becoming a strange and unique neighbor for many Americans.