Anybody know Arabic shanties?

Fairouz's song "Nassam Alayna el Hawa" has quite a few call-and-response bits, and in its setting in the film it was written for they sometimes coincide with work activities on the ships. "Take me home" is a pretty common theme in shanty lyrics. So were the Rahbani brothers borrowing from shanties?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TUbQcxsJwWQ

http://blogs.transparent.com/arabic/nassam-alayna-el-hawa/

Were there any shanties being mouthed silently in "Battleship Potemkin"?