There isn't much hard info on the middle east in the shadowlore. However, here's some of the basics AFAIK (and I'm sure others will correct me where I'm wrong):
When the Awakening happened, the Middle East cracked down hard on magic, thinking it an abomination, and that stance hasn't really changed over the last few decades. This coincides with the new jihadii movements, which resulted in a series of wars where the Islamic world invaded Europe (the Eurowars). Also, the bigwigs in Iran thought about calling for the extermination of all Awakened in the name of Allah, and the Great Dragon Aden displayed her displeasure with the notion by turning Tehran to ash. This, along with the actions of a little corp named Saeder-Krupp, are the main reason why dragons are absolutely HATED in the middle east.
Since then, there's been a pretty much constant level of religious nutjobbery, more or less fanatical depending where in the middle east and north Africa you go and when, but still big, and mostly unified. Well, they were, until the leader was revealed to be a Master Shedim who was intending to do some seriously bad things. So the whole area is just a hair's breadth from civil war, without even going into the deal with all the non-Muslim peoples, some of whom are under the implicit protection of Aden.
As far as corps go, S-K is the big player of the AAAs, but plenty of AAs and As in the area, mostly involved in the same fields corps are involved with over there today. Until recently, the 10,000 Daggers was the premier merc corp in the area (one of the big three in the world, actually), but they got smacked around with the events in Bogota recently, so they're reeling (and probably under some international sanctions). However, on the ground in the Middle East, you can bet that they're still the big name in town, and those that cross them tend to die horribly. It is safer doublecrossing a Mafia family, even the one that is run by the Bugs.
