Arab, in its common modern definition, is also a widely employed example of panethnicity. Arabs themselves are a grouping of peoples of various ancestral origins, religious backgrounds and historic identities, whose members identify as such on one or more of the grounds of language, culture, or genealogy.[3]
Those self-identifying as Arab, however, rarely do so on its own. Most hold multiple identities, with a more localized prioritized ethnic identity — such as Egyptian, Lebanese, or Palestinian — in addition to further tribal, village and clan identities.
Some Arabic-speakers, who would otherwise be labelled Arabs, reject the label as a self-designation or as an imposed one, whether it be imposed by outsiders or by other self-identified Arabs who would include them as fellow Arabs. Such is the case with many Egyptians, and some Lebanese, who instead identify solely as Egyptian with other Egyptians and solely as Lebanese with other Lebanese, with no additional identification of Egyptians and Lebanese with each other, nor with Syrians, Iraqis, Palestinians, Moroccans, etc, as Arabs.