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| Acknowledgments | |
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| A Note About Terms | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Olives-- Our Roots Go Deep: Where We Came From | |
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| Recognized Futures | |
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| Sittee (or Phantom Appearances of a Lebanese Grandmother) | |
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| Great-Grandma Michael | |
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| Longing for Winter | |
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| Battling Nationalisms to Salvage Her History | |
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| For My Son Shaadi | |
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| Crossing Over to the Other Side | |
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| The Queen, Carcasses, and Other Things | |
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| One Room | |
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| Chalked Out | |
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| Unpicked Fruits | |
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| Bread-- A Basic Desire: Going Home | |
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| Boundaries: Arab/American | |
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| Wherever I Am | |
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| Homecoming | |
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| Banned Poem | |
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| Peace Is Tossed to the Wind | |
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| Moroccan Steam | |
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| She Makes Me Tea In Cairo | |
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| Thyme-- Growing Against the Odds: Surviving the Gult War | |
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| Amara | |
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| A Woman's Place Is in the Struggle | |
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| "Offensive" Art by Palestinian Children | |
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| Military Presences and Absences | |
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| Gulf War | |
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| Laban-- Silent Victims and Belly-Dancers: (Mis) Representations of Arab Women | |
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| Say french | |
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| Global Sisterhood: Where Do We Fit In? | |
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| Tear Off Your Western Veil! | |
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| Arab-Americans: Living with Pride and Prejudice | |
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| Exotic | |
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| The Arab Woman and I | |
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| The Arab Woman in U.S. Popular Culture | |
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| Orientalism in Science Fiction | |
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| Grapeleaves-- Tangled Identities: Claiming Our Selves | |
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| A Lunatic from Libya, One Generation Removed | |
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| Going Home | |
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| What's Not in a Name | |
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| Browner Shades of White | |
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| On Language and Ethnicity | |
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| Mocking Civilization | |
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| Pulled | |
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| Abyss | |
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| Two Women Drinking Coffee | |
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| In Search of Home | |
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| Hairless in Gaza | |
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| Blood | |
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| Mint-- Moving Beyond Survival: Celebrating Who We Are | |
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| ABC | |
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| Five Steps to Creating Culture | |
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| Camel Girl | |
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| Artist | |
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| A Blessing | |
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| Armenian/Lesbian: Telling Our Stories | |
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| Mint, Tomatoes, and the Grapevine | |
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| Appendix-- Arab Resources and Organizations | |
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| The Image of Arabs in Sources of U.S. Culture | |
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| Organizations With an Arab-American/Arab-Canadian Focus | |
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| About the Contributors | |
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| Permissions | |
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| Index | |
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| About the Editor | |
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| About South End Press | |