This book aims at examining the literary representations of Arab/Muslim Americans in two novels: Falling Man by Don DeLillo (2007) and Once in a Promised Land by Laila Halaby (2007). These two novels have Written in the same year,and represent Arab/Muslim characters in the framework of the event of the 9/11, but from two different perspectives. While DeLillo represents Arab/Muslim Americans from the perspective of an outsider, Halaby's novel represents the experience of Arab/Muslim Americans from the inside. A number of concepts introduced within the postcolonial conceptualframework in Homi...