to arrive at our own conclusions and I tend not to read an article until after I independently review the data w/o a priori author interpretations clouding, shadowing, or otherwise influencing my thought.
That said, the title places agency on a MidEast rather than African Tunisia. All Arabic speakers are not Arabians. Yes Arabians came to Mediterranean Africa settled and 'colonized' the place. There's a subliminal identity crisis. The culture aspires Arabian Peninsula biological origins. HotepBoy gave ES an example of a biological taMazight woman who totally identified Arab @ , in fact, surprised as to her genomic revealed geographic origins. But that's just one facet of identity 'choice' in the Maghreb.