It has been a homogeneous Caucasoid area through out all of times with a minor influx of north Africans. When looking at certain sub-ethnicities of parts of ancient Phoenicia such as Lebanon and the Maronites; you get a fully homogeneous Caucasoid people while the Sunnis have a minor African component. Egypt and Kush never really had a influence over the Middle East. The Middle East influenced Egypt and Kush ever since Assyria conquered Egypt. The Middle East and Greece influenced Egypt, not vice versa. Phoenician statues attached.