Arab Christians: a group that does not really exist.
Walid Phares has a highly informative article on Christians living in Arab-majority countries. (*) He shatters the myth that all such Christians are Arab in ethnicity. Some are, but most are not.
It would be more accurate to say “Middle East Christians.” I highly recommend the article, as it sheds light not only on its subject but also on the relation between Islam and race. The Arabs were the first ethnicity to adopt Islam widely. As a result, the distinction between Arabs, an ethnicity, and Islam, a religion, has been unnecessarily blurred.
Walid Phares is an interesting figure in the extremely contentious academic field of Middle Eastern studies. In that highly politicized field of study, it is difficult so far to sort out extremists from others. Phares seems interesting, so I’m going to keep reading his work. (†)