"To build and scale a business in MENA is much harder than anywhere else in the world... What if Steve Jobs grew up in Homs, a town in Syria, where his father was from instead of San Francisco?"pic.twitter.com/GJLdtCOrjC
Nitpicking, but while MENA may be more difficult than the US it is better than sub-saharan Africa, central asia, and maybe even southeast Asia ex-India. There is a common language and there is money in MENA.