North Africa and peuple from Middle Eastern are like "semi-southern Europeans" (half caucasoid); that is, if you remove their Negroid and Arab part coming from the Arab-Muslim invasion (or not), they will resemble a sort of Atlanto-Mediterranean or pure Mediterranean without influence "Levantine" or others influences (negroid).
Otherwise I do not know, people confuse "having a tanned skin with Atlanto-Mediterranean or Gracile-Mediterranean facial features" with "being genetically Arabic or North African"
Perhaps there are countries in Europe that are genetically purely Mediterranean but with no significant genetically significant influence from modern North Africa or Middle Eastern (less than 1 or 0,30%).
If we compare Sicily with North Africa or peuple from Middle Eastern; Sicily seems to me to be genetically the most European, now I know nothing about Sicily, so...
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