rumplepuff, I am really surprised that a teacher like you (I am assuming you are a teacher because you seem to be talking from inside Al Maha) makes a statement like, " Maybe it's a Qatari thing? Maybe it’s just an Arab mentality that will never progress out of its Bedouin phase?"

Education is about opening people's minds not about closing them with judgements.

All you are saying about the bad teaching and learning at Al Maha might be true but that does not make it true that all schools owned by Arabs are like that.

Please get out of your cultural box. You are in a competely foreign culture and you should use this to open your mind more, not close it with packeged culturally biased jugdements.
Good luck to you.