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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 | |