(Translated into English from an Arabic article by Yasser Ghanim on Facebook) Not a day—perhaps not even an hour—passes without seeing a post on Facebook or Instagram praising a specific stallion or mare. In all these posts, the publisher always admires the horse championship, and dazzling beauty. Naturally, this is accompanied by photos and videos displaying “lavish beauty,” exquisite type, and a breathtaking presence—at least, as seen through the eyes of the poster. However, I feel a sense of sorrow because, in most of these cases, I do not share the same appreciation or admiration for the majority of these horses. It appears that the standards of taste and the criteria for beauty have diverged significantly between “Fundamentalists” (like myself) and our brethren whom I call the “Modernists.” Beauty of the Arabian horse has become a completely relative concept with big divergence between the two factions and two very distinct perceptions. What is the standard type of the Arabian horse, if any? Or rather, what are its most typical and most desirable traits? And what are the morphological (visual) traits upon which we build our appreciation of beauty? This is a question that occupies everyone, yet there seems to be…