Progressive? Indentured servitude of Philippine (and other country) servants who are treated like slaves and paid pennies. In a country where women are banned from driving and must have a male guardian when they go outside? Where they just arrested a woman last month for the crime of wearing a skirt? A country where having the wrong belief or loving the wrong person is a death sentence? Sure the architecture is beautiful but it is not a country I would like to visit. "Most progressive in the middle east" isn't saying much to be honest.