Table of Contents:
  • The cultural politics of "the Middle East" in the Americas : an introduction / Ella Shohat and Evelyn Alsultany
  • The Sephardi-Moorish Atlantic : between orientalism and occidentalism / Ella Shohat
  • Mahjar legacies : a reinterpretation / Jacob Berman
  • Turcos in the mix : corrupting Arabs in Brazil's racial democracy / John Tofik Karam
  • From "baisanos" to billionaires : locating Arabs in Mexico / Theresa Alfaro-Velcamp
  • Ali Bla Bla's double-edged sword : Argentine president Carlos Menem and the negotiation of identity / Christina Civantos
  • They hate our freedom, but we love their belly dance : the spectacle of the shimmy in contemporary U.S. culture / Amira Jarmakani
  • From Arab terrorists to patriotic Arab Americans : representational strategies in post-9/11 TV dramas / Evelyn Alsultany
  • When Pakistanis became Middle Eastern : visualizing racial targets in the global war on terror / Junaid Rana
  • "A strip, a land, a blaze" : Arab American hip-hop and transnational politics / Sunaina Maira
  • Muslim digital diasporas and the gay pornographic cyber imaginary / Karim Tartoussieh
  • Drawing the line : a rhetorical analysis of the Mohammed cartoons controversy as it unfolded in Denmark and the United States / Helle Rytkönen
  • Turcophobia or Turcophilia : politics of representing Arabs in Latin America / Heba El Attar
  • User-friendly Islams : translating Rumi in France and the United States / Ziad Elmarsafy
  • "Axising" Iran : the politics of domestication and cultural translation / R. Shareah Taleghani
  • "The uneven bridge of translation" : Turkey in between East/West / Shouleh Vatanabadi.