To see a gas pump in the middle of a desert can be a surprisingly beautiful sight. More than that it even looks lively to me, like an extraterrestrial being, like ET with its strange head, its two insect arms and the big belly. But there is still another thing that comes to mind. The gas pump is symbolic, it has the aesthetic quality of an icon. Since the Arabic world is not fighting with the scimitar anymore, how about the gas pump being the new icon of the Arabic world. It would represent everything an icon or flag for that matter should represent, a crescent and a gas pump on red ground.