Authors who wish to submit to Case Focus must be based in one of the countries from the Middle East and Africa (MEA) region, as classified below.
| Algeria | Guinea | Republic of the Congo |
| Angola | Guinea-Bissau | Réunion |
| Armenia | Iraq | Rwanda |
| Azerbaijan | Israel | Saint Helena |
| Bahrain | Jordan | São Tomé and Principe |
| Benin | Kenya | Saudi Arabia |
| Botswana | Kuwait | Senegal |
| Burkina Faso | Lebanon | Seychelles |
| Burundi | Lesotho | Sierra Leone |
| Cameroon | Liberia | Somalia |
| Cabo Verde | Libya | South Africa |
| Central African Republic | Madagascar | South Sudan |
| Chad | Malawi | Sudan |
| Comoros | Mali | Swaziland |
| Côte d'Ivoire | Mauritania | Syria |
| Cyprus | Mauritius | Tanzania |
| Democratic Republic of the Congo | Mayotte | Togo |
| Djibouti | Morocco | Tunisia |
| Egypt | Mozambique | Turkey |
| Equatorial Guinea | Namibia | Uganda |
| Eritrea | Niger | United Arab Emirates |
| Ethiopia | Nigeria | Western Sahara |
| Gabon | Northern Cyprus | Yemen |
| Gambia | Oman | Zambia |
| Georgia | Palestine | Zimbabwe |
| Ghana | Qatar |
The above list of MEA countries was provided by AACSB in 2019.
