Off the top of my head, I saw the thread title and thought "Damned good idea". My experience of traveling in a few Arabic speaking countries leads me to conclude that whatever the US newscasters say, nokia is one of the most popular brands in places like Egypt, and there are just as many techies there as anywhere else.

I speak no arabic, so can't help much. But you have my support.

(Recalls a long techie chat with a shopkeeper in Tunisia comparing mobile phones... the one man there who never tried to sell me anything!)

Off topic, we have athread running about putting a Bible onto an n900. It's would be waaay cool if a translation of the Koran would run on the same software.