چکیده (انگلیسی):

Arising from Du Bois's definition of double-consciousness Arab Americans were compared with their
African- American counterparts, despite the historical, social, political and linguistic differences, in light of
their dual identities they experienced at their homes of origin and their host homes. Race, however,was not
the major reason for such feeling; it was people's suffering from socioreligious and cultural traditions that
negatively banned them from creating any sense of unified identity, especially at their homes of origin. This
study illustrates how Arab-American identities became hyphenated, lost and torn between two different
worlds due to subjects' inability to strike balance in between these two conflicting worlds. It therefore
concludes that it was not only the expatriates' host homes that distanced them from their real identities; it was
their host homes that contributed to alienating them from their socioreligious and sexual identities, thus
making them feel doubly-conscious