Arguably, although Edward Said’s Orientalism was published almost five decades ago, Muslimah or Muslim women have remained unseen and invisible in contemporary Anglo-American society. To question this invisibility toward marginal groups, this panel investigates how Palestinian-American Muslimah writers write their own stories to make their experiences visible within the US and beyond and contest Israeli Zionism. This panel explores how Palestinian-American Muslimah writers thematize the ideas of visibility by illuminating their characters' experiences and activism to contest Israeli Zionism occupied their motherland, Palestine, which has suffered from colonialism and neo-imperialism. In doing so, the writers represent their female characters as lionesses, activists, educators, scholars, politicians, and even prostitutes to be visible in every aspect of the dominant groups. By highlighting the visibility of Palestinian-American Muslimah, this panel explores various tropes, strategies and theories the writers engage in, ranging from the bildungsroman, memories, spaces, violence, and environment to challenge Israeli occupation in Palestine for over seventy-five years. The rationale for organizing a paenl on the visibility and Palestinian-American Muslimah is to contest US neoimperialism linked to Israeli Zionism and to understand better how Palestinian women have suffered from the eras of colonialism to the periods of neo-imperialism and Israeli Zionism. This panel explores Palestinian women’s visibility and activism in establishing their individual and national freedom. Arguably, Palestinian Muslimah's visibility and activism are seemingly excluded in women’s studies and activist studies, which mainly expose white women’s activism.

This topic is related to existing scholarship, especially women's studies and postcolonial studies struggling to challenge white supremacy, US neoimperialism, and Israeli Zionism. This panel focuses on how Palestinian-American Muslimah decolonize both neo-colonialism in their homelands and white sovereignty by illuminating Muslimah visibility and activism in their writings. The methodology arrayed, which encompasses close reading attached within historical, cultural, and, remarkably, religious contexts, is fittingly united with the subject matter. Each paper will reveal how each Palestinian-American Muslimah literary work enhances the character’s visibility and activism in fighting against neo-imperialism and Israeli Zionism. These writings cover multiple genres, including fiction, historical fiction, memoir, poetry, and short story collections, to break white hegemony and Israeli Zionism in multiple aspects. Thus, each paper will engage with various studies, ranging from the bildungsroman, postcolonial, memory, ecofeminism, and Islamic studies to national history and trauma studies, to illuminate how Palestinian Muslimah writers have participated in larger debates of global problems: zionism and white supremacy.