Contemporary Arab American literature : transnational reconfigurations of citizenship and belonging Introduction: Transnational Arab American Belonging Reimagining the Ancestral Arab Homeland To the Arab Homeland and Back: Narratives of Returns and Rearrivals Translocal Connections between the US and the Arab World Representing Arabs and Muslims in the US after 9 11: Gender Religion and Citizenship Conclusion: Transnational Solidarity and the Arab Uprisings. The last couple of decades have witnessed a flourishing of Arab American literature across multiple genres. Yet increased interest in this literature is ironically paralleled by a prevalent bias against Arabs and Muslims that portrays their long presence in the US as a recent and unwelcome phenomenon. Spanning the 1990s to the present Carol Fadda Conrey takes in the sweep of literary and cultural texts by Arab American writers in order to understand the ways in which their depictions of Arab homelands whether actual or imagined play a crucial role in shaping cultural articulations of US