I think you made a slight mistake; Egypt, Iraq, Jordan, Libya, Oman, Saudi Arabia, Syria, Tunisia, and Yemen makes nine countries, not eight. Did you include an extra one, or are there really nine?

Incidentally, this reminds of something I learned recently: Turkey was the only country in an international survey where a higher percentage of the population rejected evolution than in the United States. This fact helped explain why the only person to ever tell me Darwin was evil was Turkish.