This is not true, am not from Egypt but am Arabic too and Egypt is the leading Arabic country in hardwares importation, they have really ALL with good prices and have a great number of hardcore gamers, and Arabia is not behind the sun lol. Also it depends in the use of the system and the level of the person who will rate his system, in his country, a gamer will give him 6/10, a general user will give him 9/10 '"kick-ass"' like you say.
And i will give you a comparison between my country "Morocco" and "Egypt", here we have only ONE company that sells hardware, so the MAX we can get for a psu's is a corsair 650, for gpu's is the 5770 and for motherboards p6t for 1366 and p7p55d series for 1156, no ssd, that company sells antec 500w for about 180 usd !!! and i7 930 for 550 usd and the list goes on, the situation is critical here and it's much much better in Egypt.
that's all