Fourteen Arab and non-Arab writers from the U.S., Canada, Latin America and the Middle East contribute 12 essays exploring what it means to be part of the Arab diaspora and to live in the Americas. Coverage includes early immigration to Latin America in the 1890s, the construction of an Arab American identity in the U.S. in the 1920s, expatriatism in the 1970s-1990s, having multiple identities, the impact of pop culture and stereotypes on one's experience of the Americas, a "then and now" look at Arab experiences in Latin America, the cultural significance of Arab American literature, Arab American reclamation rhetoric, representations of Arabs in juvenile fiction pre- and post-9/11, the post-9/11 responses of the larger community, and the situation today. No subject index. Annotation ©2007 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)