The nations of contemporary Asia, Latin America, and Africa and politically independent but in many ways are as dominated and dependent as they were ruled directly by the European powers. Recent developments in Arab American literary stud ies, including the publication of Amal Amireh ’s and Lisa Suhair Majaj’s groundbreaking collection of essays, Going Global: The Transnational Reception of Third World Women Writers in 2001, have greatly benefitted from the insights of postcolonial, ethnic, and multicultural studies. Home is often portrayed as a place of alienation and displacement in the Arab women ’s writings. The mystified notions of Home and family are removed from their romantic, idealized learning and love in complex ways. The complicated notion of home mirrors the problematizing of community , nation, identity that one fins in Arab women ’s writing. Susan Abulhawa is a Palestinian American novelist who now lives in the USA. She was born in Kuwait to Palestinian parents who were made refuge es after the Six -Day War of 1967. There, she studied biomedical science and embraced it as a profession alongside her writing. The historical and the personal continue to go hand in hand in Abulhawa’s narration, where every chapter is headed by a date that chronicles every relevant incident in the Palestinian struggle. The valorization of the site of migration stems from the assumption that the uncertainty that accompanies migration, and the experience of being exposed to two or more different Page 112  Labyrinth : ISSN 0976-0814 (Vol.8 - No.1, January 2017) cultures, ensures a destabilization of the formerly (supposedly) rigid view of identity and a re-creation of meaning. The bond we forged was molded from an unspoken commitment to our collective survival. It reached through history , continents, spanned wars, and held o ur collective and individual tragedies and triumphs. (MJ 164) Domination and inequities of power and wealth are the perennial facts of human society . But in today ’s global setting they are also interpretable as having something to do with imperialism, its history , its new forms. The nations of contemporary Asia, Latin America, and Africa and politically independent but in many ways are as dominated and dependent as they were ruled directly by the European powers. Recent developments in Arab American literar y studies, including the publication of Amal Amireh ’s and Lisa Suhair Majaj ’s groundbreaking collection of essays, Going Global: The Transnational Reception of Third World Women Writers in 2001, have greatly benefitted from the insights of postcolonial, et hnic, and multicultural studies. Their work epitomizes the usefulness of postcolonial theory for Arab literary studies, demonstrating the value of contemporary multidisciplinary theorizations for the study of third world women writings in western contexts. Utilizing postcolonial, feminist, and multicultural theories, Amireh and Majaj discuss increased academic interest in third world women writers. Their work offers an academic inquiry into and critique of the incorporation of third world women writers into feminist studies and literary studies in the western academy . Benefitting to a large extent from the work done by postcolonial and feminist literary critics like Edward Said, Gayatri Chakravotry Spivak, Chandra Talpade Mohanty , and Amy Kaplan, they argue that this incorporation operates as a corrective measure to a predominantly “Eurocentric feminist movement” that had not – in the past – made room for “Third World women” and their experiences (1). In the field of literary studies, the incorporation of thi rd world texts, including the P. Kamatchi  Page 113 positive accounts of migratory ethnic experiences, challenges the heavily Euro-centric literary canon. Home is often portrayed as a place of alienation and displacement in the Arab women ’s writings. The mystified notions of H ome and family are removed from their romantic, idealized learning an