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[[The War on Terror|In the present climate]], they might be involved in financing terrorism. Sometimes [[The Con]] will involve someone using this trope and posing as a rich Arab to help explain a source of abundant but eccentric money for the mark.
They also turn up a lot in [[Romance Novel
An indispensable addition to any (generally evil) [[Cosmopolitan Council]]. In more comedic works, he is almost inevitably a [[Funny Foreigner]].
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* ''The Sheik'' is a film from 1921 with Rudolf Valentino in the title role.
* The Sheik from ''[[The Cannonball Run]]'' movies.
* In the Norwegian cult classic puppet-movie, ''Pinchcliffe Grand Prix'', visiting Oil Sheikh Ben Redic Phyfasan (a name which in the original Norwegian would rougly translate akin to something like "Sheik Ben Radish Gawd Damn Eet") ends up sponsoring both the construction of the protagonist's [[Cool Car]], El Tempo Gigante, and the titular Grand Prix. What, exactly, an
** He even speaks [[You No Take Candle|Broken Norwegian]], so maybe he takes a special interest in Norway.
** The exact same plot (Arab oil sheik sponsoring race) shows up in the Swedish movie ''G?Kanal''. Except it's a boat race. And he ends up not paying because his brother launches a coup as he is gone. In the end the Norwegian navy saves the day.
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* ''[[Hotel Babylon]]'', where a group are seen as enjoying the services of one of the prostitutes that the hotel will get for clients who ask.
* An Arab billionaire tried to buy British Airways in one episode of ''[[Absolute Power (radio)|Absolute Power]]'', although he was dressed in more of the way of a traditional businessman. He needed a PR team because he was related to Bin Laden.
* One appeared on ''[[Alice]]'', offering to marry the sassiest
* A subversion or aversion- in one episode of ''[[Minder]]'', the character to be guarded is a wealthy Arab politician who is a rather noble good guy who doesn't show any of the stereotypical love of excess associated with the character. Amusingly, one character in the episode is hired as a temporary butler and believes the stereotype and thus thinks that hiring a white prostitute for his boss is the first thing he should do.
* In an episode of ''[[America's Next Top Model]]'', a contestant admitted that before the show she had once gone to what she thought was a modelling casting, but turned out to be a dinner with rich middle eastern men trying to solicit young girls to take home as wives.
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* The music video for [[The Clash]]'s "Rock the Casbah" (which got a lot of play on MTV in the early 1980s) has some fun with this trope as a man who appears to be an Arab Oil Shiekh ends up hanging around with a man who looks like an Orthodox Jew, and the video ends with the two attending a concert The Clash were putting on.
* One attempts to buy Doreau in an episode of ''[[Sledge Hammer]]''.
* In one episode of ''[[Are You Being Served?|Are You Being Served]]'', an
* In ''[[Highway to Heaven]]'', Mark Gordon (played by Victor French), temporarily pretends to be one of these to fool corrupt businessmen to help Johnathan Smith and Mark Gordon's equally corrupt, but good-natured friends.
* In an episode of ''[[The Nanny]]'', the [[Character Title|titular character]] visits a Sheikh at his palace in his home country. He of course falls in love with her, and tries to convince her to stay as his wife. The decision Fran has to make isn't exactly made easier by the fact that the Sheikh [[Identical Stranger|looks a lot like Mr. Sheffield]].
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