The article mixes ethnicity, race and culture/language. The Arab League’ definition of an Arab does not refer to ethnicity, race or religion ‘An Arab is a person whose language is Arabic, who lives in an Arabic country, and who is in sympathy with the aspirations of the Arabic people.’

‘Arabs’ can be Caucasian, Black, or combinations. The majority of ‘Arabs’ are Moslem, about 15 million Christian. 

The U.S. Census Bureau considers “Arabs’ as white; “White” refers to a person having origins in any of the original peoples of Europe, the Middle East, or North Africa. It includes people who indicated their race(s) as “White” or reported entries such as Irish, German, Italian, Lebanese, Arab, Moroccan, or Caucasian. However, in Canada, ‘Arabs’ are not considered white.

What brings ‘Arabs’ into an identifiable group is language and culture, even though there are wide variations between the Arabic language spoken in North Africa, Egypt and the Near/Middle East.