The US image in the Arab world in the post 9/11 era, and especially in the aftermath of the invasion of Iraq, has steadily deteriorated. How has the Arab media responded to the U.S. media's representation of Arabs and the Arab world? Just as the West has Arabized all Muslims, the East has Americanized the entire West. The post 9/11 anti-Arab/Muslim media campaign in the United States plays a crucial role in generating a new visual dialogue between the US and the Arab World. This paper examines the visual dialogue that is taking place between the U.S. and Arab media and the political, religious, and racial forms of this dialogue. On the Muslim side the actors participating in this visual dialogue hope to legitimize their attempts at renegotiating the Arab/Muslim world position in the international system; on the American side there are attempts to convince Americans that the US leadership status within the very same international system is positive. This paper focuses on the various forms of anti-U.S. and pro-Arab sentiment that mark the shoe-throw incident. Muntadhir Al-Zaidi, an Iraqi journalist, threw both of his shoes at President Bush during a news conference with Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki in Baghdad. His shoe-throwing act was accompanied with the epitaph, “This is a farewell kiss, you dog.” Hurling a shoe at someone is considered in the Arab world the most insulting act while Bush made light of it by making it a ‘way to gain attention.’ Through a visual and discursive analysis, my paper will examine how the Arab media represented the shoe-throw incident. I will focus on the clash of cultures that made many Americans, who prefer to throw their politicians with rotten eggs, unable to understand the logic behind Al-Zaidi’s act and look at it as an act of violence rather than a form of protest. Al-Zaidi’s act has been used by the Arab media to make a counter-stroke by exalting an Arab who was able to stand up and make a public show of resentment against the US president. This paper analyzes the responses this incident evoked in the Middle East. In particular, it shows the significant change in the representation of the US in the Arab media based on the observation of the current image and representation of Arabs/Muslims in the US media.