http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2010/jun/22/pan-arab-narrative-myth-lebanon
(Arabic) http://international.daralhayat.com/internationalarticle/155906
I hasten to add that once when I filming was in Sudan on the banks of the Nile I saw some kids approaching gathering all sorts of plastic bags and rubbish. I asked the old Sudanese man I was interviewing who the children were. "Pay them no attention, they are Negroes," he said!