Interesting photo of the very first Arab Summit....this was in 1946 in Cairo with all then 13 member states....Egypt, Iraq, Lebanon, Syria, Saudi Arabia, Jordan, Yemen, Libya, Sudan, Morocco, Tunisia, Kuwait and Algeria. Which oddly enough are the very ones who were no shows to this one....
I understand the reasons they won't go as basically Summit ends up all talk and no action on the real concerns of their individual countries lack of leadership to include it's citizens....rather than the 'love me and obey me' leadership most have held for decades.
It's unfortunate, for the Arab people, that there is more wealth in the Arab region than any other part of the world but there are more displaced, hungry, insecure people more than any other part of the world.