My son worked as an IT contractor in Saudi for three years. He doesn’t have one single nice word to say about the “camel jockeys.”
I was in Turkey for a couple of weeks and actually missed those prayer/songs on the loudspeakers when I got home. Until I didn’t. It’s hypnotic, I’m sure intentionally.
I lived in Saudi for six years. I met some of the best people in the world but I also met some that in the old days in America they would have been classified as shoot on sight. There were people there that even creeped out devout Muslims.