Includes bibliographical references (p. [157]-171) and index.

Introduction : defining the Arab Diaspora / Zahia Smail Salhi -- The betweenness of identity : language in trans-national literature / Yasir Suleiman -- Gendering the imperial city : London in Tayeb Salih's Season of migration to the north / Zahia Smail Salhi -- Voices of exiles and the fictional works of Tayeb Salih / Ami Elad-Bouskila -- Voicing a culture "dispersed by time" : metropolitan location and identity in the literature and art of Sabiha al Khemir / Mohamed-Salah Omri -- Hédi Bouraoui : cross-cultural writing / Najib Redouane -- "When dwelling becomes impossible" : Arab-Jews in America and in Israel in the writings of Ahmad Susa and Shimon Ballas / Orit Bashkin -- Two trends of cutural activity among Palestinian-Americans / Nir Yehudai -- From ambiguity to abjection : Iraqi-Americans negotiating race in the United States / Evelyn Alsultany -- Beyond the Diaspora : letting Arab voices be heard / Ghalya F.T. Al-Said.