Politicians often use the word "game." And although in words they urge to observe the "rules of the game," in reality few people adhere to them. It so happened that since the beginning of the twentieth century, one of the largest victims of games in the "Big Politics" was the Arab world. What are the specifics, driving motives and what lurks behind the facade of turbulent socio-political processes and bloody wars in the region? What are the Arabs breathing today, what moods reign among the local elites at the beginning of the Third Millennium? What role does the countries of the Middle East themselves play in all this, and what role belongs to the factors of the external row? The proposed work is an attempt to find the most realistic, in the opinion of the author, versions and estimates.