Umayyah’s current book project offers a cultural history of how and why Arab American activists and allies have leveraged media production, distribution, and exhibition practices in order to advance Palestine solidarity politics in the United States. By historicizing the growth of Palestine solidarity media and its reception in the US, the book offers a broader framework for understanding how underrepresented communities utilize media within their social justice movements in order to communicate contested political issues and bring the representation of those issues from the margins of US public discourse to the mainstream. From the production of educational film strips, public television broadcasting, and narrative and documentary filmmaking, to film festival organizing and participation in Hollywood awards shows, Arab and Arab American activists and their allies have leveraged media activism practices to resist harmful stereotypes, produce knowledge about Palestine for general audiences, and cultivate solidarities among various constituencies (including liberation theologists, feminists, leftist LGBTQ communities, and progressive Jewish communities) in ways that carry broader lessons for understanding the role of media activism within social movements more generally. Throughout this process, these media engagements have emerged as a practice through which Palestinian-Americans express their cultural politics while cultivating and maintaining their cultural identities in diaspora. As such, this book not only examines how Palestine solidarity media transforms how US audiences see Palestine, but how Palestinian- Americans see themselves.