Latest POD for no Arab identity in North Africa

What is the latest POD possible for having the countries of North Africa to not view themselves as Arabs, instead identifying as Berber, Carthaginian, Roman, Greek, Egyptian, other etc?
 
From Hathaway, The Arab Lands Under Ottoman Rule:

During the Ottoman period, the word ‘Arab’ did not have the ethnonational connotations it does today but instead was a somewhat derogatory term used by speakers of both Arabic and Ottoman Turkish to refer to a nomadic or semi-nomadic inhabitant of the desert or the rural hinterlands of towns. (In Ottoman Turkish, furthermore, ‘Arab’ also frequently connoted a sub-Saharan African.) On the other hand, cities, towns and villages in the Ottoman Arab provinces were inhabited by Arabic speakers who tended to identify themselves by their places of residence and/or by the confessional communities to which they belonged.
So probably an eighteenth- or nineteenth-century POD could work.
 
From Hathaway, The Arab Lands Under Ottoman Rule:

During the Ottoman period, the word ‘Arab’ did not have the ethnonational connotations it does today but instead was a somewhat derogatory term used by speakers of both Arabic and Ottoman Turkish to refer to a nomadic or semi-nomadic inhabitant of the desert or the rural hinterlands of towns. (In Ottoman Turkish, furthermore, ‘Arab’ also frequently connoted a sub-Saharan African.) On the other hand, cities, towns and villages in the Ottoman Arab provinces were inhabited by Arabic speakers who tended to identify themselves by their places of residence and/or by the confessional communities to which they belonged.
So probably an eighteenth- or nineteenth-century POD could work.

Was there a separate word for referring to the peoples of the Arabic language?
 
What is the latest POD possible for having the countries of North Africa to not view themselves as Arabs, instead identifying as Berber, Carthaginian, Roman, Greek, Egyptian, other etc?

The absolute latest point of divergence, at least for part of the region, would be to have European colonial powers truly flood the area with settlers, to the point that most inhabitants of the area identify as ethnically French, Italian, or otherwise European because they are the descendants of those settlers, or of local inhabitants who assimilated.

This could have very easily been the case for Libya if Italy had stayed out of World War II or entered on the side of the Allies, and thus held onto their colonial empire. This would have been harder for the French government in North Africa - they likely would have had to engage in outright genocide to give Algeria a French majority. Still, it is just conceivable that something like that could have happened with a point of divergence after 1900.
 

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Simultaneously allow a complete collapse of the Ottoman Empire while avoiding anything resembling 19th century to mid 20th century European colonialism in North Africa and the Middle East. Allow indigenous MENA polities take the place of the Ottoman Turks and let nationalism naturally develop. Pan-Arabism at most becomes a fringe ideology of a select academics. The speakers of Arabic dialects are hard enough to comprehend one another even with MSA; without the need for MSA, Arabic becomes a family of somewhat related tongues rather than a macrolanguage with hundreds of millions of speakers. Egyptians and Tunisians would see each other as different as say Italians and Guatemalans.
 
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