I. First generation: The new world / Susan Muaddi Darraj
Airport / Pauline Kaldas
In-country / Rabih Alameddine
Easy to say / Sahar Mustafah
How we are bound / Patricia Sarrafian Ward; II. Cross-cultural encounters: News from Phoenix / Joseph Geha
Edge of rock / May Mansoor Munn
Manar of Hama / Mohja Kahf
Salad lady / Rawi Hage
Coal bin / D.H. Melhem
My Elizabeth / Diana Abu-Jaber ; III. Relationships: Oh, Lebanon / Evelyn Shakir
And what else? / Joseph Geha
Stage directions for an extended conversation / Yussef El Guindi
The wedding night / Zahie El Kouri
Distances / Hedy Habra ; IV. Politics: Hair, prayer, and men / Laila Halaby
Ohio / Yussef El Guindi
Maryam and Marisa / David Williams
It's not about that / Samia Serageldin ; V. Looking homeward: A day at the beach / Alia Yunis
How I became my mother's daughter / Laila Lalami
Mariam / Hedy Habra
Sugar in Amman / Amal Masri ; VI. Shaping identities: Lost in freakin' Yonkers / Randa Jarrar
He had dreamed of returning / Pauline Kaldas
First snow / Khaled Mattawa
The fifty-foot woman / Nabeel Abraham
The Lebanon-Detroit Express / Alia Yunis
The American way / Frances Khirallah Noble.