“…In Jamal and Naber's 2008 edited volume, Race and Arab Americans before and after 9/11, various scholars describe how the experience of Arabs after 2001 has been a particularly difficult one (see also Bayoumi, 2009Bayoumi, , 2015Cainkar, 2009;Peek, 2011), though that difficulty is inexplicable without acknowledging the link between being Arab and being Muslim. Indeed, despite the volume being a book about Arab Americans, the phrases "Arabs and Muslims" or "Muslims and Arabs" show up 19 times, and in six of the 12 chapters.…”