A last post of DaDay, as I bee bizzy this weakened and this is post 15 of my free 15, this is my parting shot.
Don't forget that the Christmas season is upon us. At some point, freebies like you will be gifted unlimited posts until the first of the new year. So you should keep checking. Sometimes it starts before they announce it officially.
Plus over 95 percent of the population (minus some Coptics and a subpopulation in Israel) share a more-or-less common religion (Islam) which has itself spawned wars and violence over the centuries between Shi'a and Sunni. And in that way there is more of a common culture throughout the Middle East and North Africa than across Europe.
Why? Most Europeans share a more or less common religion: Christianity. And like the Sunnis and Shi'a, they spent hundreds of years fighting over the Reformation. As far as that's concerned, not so different.