This groundbreaking collection traces the links between these two regions, describes the emergence of new South-South solidarities, and offers new methodologies for the study of transnationalism, global culture, and international relations.

Introduction Paul AmarPart I. South-South Relations, Security Politics, Diplomatic History1. The Middle East and Brazil: Transregional Politics in the Dilma Rousseff Era Paul Amar2. The South America-Arab States Summit: Historical Contexts of South-South Solidarity and Exchange Paulo Daniel Farah3. Brazil's Relations with the Middle East in the "Oil Shock" Era: Pragmatism, Universalism, and Developmentalism in the 1970s Carlos Ribeiro Santana4. Palestine/Israel Controversies in the 1970s and the Birth of Brazilian Transregionalism Monique Sochaczewski5. Terrorist Frontier Cell or Cosmopolitan Commercial Hub? The Arab and Muslim Presence at the Border of Paraguay, Brazil, and Argentina Fernando RabossiPart II. Race, Nation and Transregional Imaginations6. Tropical Orientalism: Brazil's Race Debates and the Sephardi-Moorish Atlantic Ella Shohat and Robert Stam7. Slave Barracks Aristocrats: Islam and the Orient in the Work of Gilberto Freyre Alexandra Isfahani-Hammond8. Islamic Transnationalism and Anti-Slavery Movements: The Malê Rebellion as Debated by Brazil's Press, 1835-1838 José T. Cairus9. Brazil and Its Middle Eastern Populations: A Transnational Intellectual Sphere María del Mar Logroño Narbona10. The Politics of Anti-Zionism and Racial Democracy in Homeland Tourism John Tofik Karam11. Rio de Janeiro's Global Bazaar: Syrian, Lebanese, and Chinese Merchants in the Saara Neiva Vieira da Cunha and Pedro Paulo Thiago de Mello12. Muslim Identities in Brazil: Engaging Local and Transnational Spheres Paulo Gabriel Hilu da Rocha PintoPart III. Literature and Transregional Media Cultures13. Telenovelas and Muslim Identities in Brazil Silvia M. Montenegro14. Turco Peddlers, Brazilian Plantationists, and Transnational Arabs: The Genre Triangle of Levantine-Brazilian Literature Silvia C. Ferreira15. Multiple Homelands: Heritage and Migrancy in Brazilian Mahjari Literature Armando Vargas16. Orientalism in Milton Hatoum's Fiction Daniela Birman17. Arab-Brazilian Literature: Alberto Mussa's Mu'allaqa and South-South Dialogue Waïl Hassan