I am so nervous to post this, but from my own personal experience, I have to agree with all the comments posted so far.  My own husband is Arab but holds a Western passport.  When he applied for jobs using his birth papers, he was out of work all over the Middle East for months and when he did get an offer, it was so low no family could live on.  When he applied the other way, he had offers overnight and it is true, four times the amount.  As far as the education goes, I too find that odd because I was even "recruited" for a teaching job, and I have taught before but that's not my area and I don't care for it.  I wasn't even looking for a job and when I told them what my degree was in they literally said it does not matter.