border crossing, iii, iv, 8, 9, 20, 95, 179, 181, 213, 225

diaspora, 4, 8, 9, 12, 26, 68, 127, 223, 226, 227, 229

exile-at-home, 208

exilic identity, 32, 176, 179, 192, 194, 213, 218

rehabilitation, 176

refugeeism, 177

feminism, iv, 7, 14, 61–64, 66, 101, 112, 113, 227, 228, 230

Arab American feminism, 14, 113, 227

Islamic feminism, 100

gendered patriarchy, 127

gendered space, 135

ghazal, 188

Gulf War, 145, 179

High Dam, 21

Hijab, 93, 95–100, 112

historiography, 22, 33, 215, 216, 218, 223

her-story, 27

homelessness, 151, 156, 159, 187

homing desire, 208

imaginary homeland, 72, 79, 86, 191, 231

imagined community, 79, 81

new tribe, 178, 182, 221

unhomed, 151, 156, 159, 187

hyphenated, iii, iv, 1, 4, 9, 10, 17, 68, 69, 81, 85, 86, 92, 124, 140

,hyphenated (continued), 151, 178, 180, 184, 198, 203, 205, 207, 211, 212, 220

identity politics, 12, 68, 69

interstitial intimacy, 183

Islam, 2–4, 6, 7, 15, 31, 47–50, 59, 62–70, 100, 101, 107–109, 112, 120, 121, 135, 138, 205, 225, 227–230

Egypt, x, 5, 20, 21, 23, 28, 29, 32–47, 50–53, 56–61, 65, 66, 172

Eurocentric racialization, 3

Iran, 8, 62, 112, 179, 183

Iraq, 3, 16, 70, 115–17, 121, 172, 177–180, 183, 186–188, 190–200, 203–208, 210–214, 219, 222

Israel, 6, 8, 16, 21, 38, 40, 55, 65, 112, 125–30, 132, 136, 139, 161, 165, 172–173, 183

Israeli settlements, 16

Middle East, 8, 10, 15, 21, 32, 65, 120, 121, 160, 162, 178–180, 182–185, 195–198, 205–207, 214–218, 226–229

Orthodox Islam, 66

Palestine, 3, 9, 16, 40, 87, 121, 123–130, 136, 137, 159–161, 165, 168, 172, 207, 222, 231

Qur’an, 66, 120

racism, iv, 3, 11, 20, 34, 53, 54, 56, 58, 61, 62, 84, 116, 144, 145, 148

stereotypes, iv, 2, 4, 12, 63, 68, 88, 93, 95, 98–100, 102, 182

Syria, 39, 58, 73, 77–81, 84, 85, 121, 172

Turkey, 8