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Cleopatra was part of the Ptolemaic Dynasty of Egypt, the founder of whom was a Greek general of Alexander The Great.
Looks like we got ourselves a history buff here.
The Philistines, whose ascendancy began towards the end of the period of the Shoftim and continued until David vanquished them about one hundred and fifty years later, were a militaristic, technologically advanced people that dwelt upon the coastal plain of Israel. Scholarship, basing itself upon the Biblical record (see Bereishit 10:14; Devarim 2:23), archeological evidence and extra-Biblical texts, places their origins in the area of the Aegean Sea, among the Greek islands such as Crete that gave birth to the civilization of Minoa. Sometime during the 13th century BCE, waves of these maritime peoples, some of whom boarded ships and traveled eastwards with the winds while others journeyed overland along the coast of Asia Minor, began to settle upon the shores of the eastern Mediterranean from Lebanon in the north all the way down to Egypt in the south. Pharaoh Rameses III, who ruled over the "Two Lands" towards the end of the 12th century BCE, commemorated his victory over a large invasion force of these so-called Sea Peoples with the commission of a series of monumental stone reliefs for his mortuary temple at Medinat Habu. In the foreground of these reliefs, the tall raiders are depicted with plume-crested helmets, braided hair, long swords and armor upon their upper bodies, while in the background can be seen carts and wagons that convey women and children. These women and children are representations of the families that accompanied the warriors on their expeditions, for the Sea Peoples arrived not only as conquerors but as colonizers as well. In all probability, the word "Philistine" is not an ethnic designation or delineator of geographic origins, but rather more generic and descriptive, for the term may be understood to mean "invader."
I don't think she was either black or Arab. The Ptolemies were originally Greek.