Imagining the Arabs are something other than what the Arabs are is exactly how we all (Arabs included) got here.
The Chatham House Version exists in local variants everywhere.
The only positive results have been achieved by guys like Sisi, basically an Egyptian beat cop...

... and various royal families who have the luxury of seeing their subjects clearly and not having to curry favor beyond perhaps oil money payoffs.

The personal warmth, charm and other good qualities of many of the Arab people individually actually do a disservice to those who should be viewing them objectively on the national scale.

"If Mahmud is such a great guy, why can't we all just leave ideology behind and get along?"
Well, if Mahmud is such a great guy, why are there big piles of trash all over his neighborhood? Why can't women ride the bus there without being sexually assaulted.