A'arab Zaraq is the seventh Qlipha, the shadow of Netzach, the sphere of Victory. Its name means "the Ravens of Dispersion", the scattering into wasted craving of what should have been victory and enduring desire.
In the scheme followed here it is ruled by Baal, a title rather than a proper name in its Canaanite and Phoenician context, meaning simply "lord" or "master" and applied to the storm and fertility god worshipped across the Levant and repeatedly opposed in the Hebrew Bible, most famously in the contest with Elijah at 1 Kings 18. Because "Baal" was a title used of several distinct local deities in the ancient Near East, the demon of the same name in later grimoire lists, including the Ars Goetia's first-ranked spirit Bael, is better understood as a Kabbalistic and grimoire era abstraction of that older title than as a continuation of any single deity's cult. Spellings and rulers of the shells vary by source; the material is presented academically.
Netzach is attributed to Venus, and A'arab Zaraq's scattering ravens are read as Venus's desire and attraction dispersed into wasted craving, a victory that never resolves into anything held or enjoyed. Ravens themselves recur across many cultures as scavenger birds read as ill-omened, which likely reinforced the image's choice for this particular shell.
Sources Encyclopaedia Judaica, 2nd editionMichael Berenbaum and Fred Skolnik (eds.) with The Book of the Goetia of Solomon the KingSamuel Liddell MacGregor Mathers (trans.); Aleister Crowley (ed. and publisher), The Golden Dawn: The Original Account of the Teachings, Rites, and Ceremonies of the Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn, 6th editionIsrael Regardie