“Half/Half”: The Experiences of Palestinian American Teens brought back “Home” for High School. Many Arabs living in Diaspora choose to send their children back to their homelands for high school. This is especially the case with Palestinians. This paper will outline some of the social and economic characteristics of American born Palestinians who were brought back to Palestine and Jordan as youth, describe the reasons parents gave for taking this step, and discuss the youths’ perceptions of these experiences. Data are from a sociological study conducted in 2011 that includes in-depth, structured interviews with more than 50 Arab American high school juniors and seniors living in the Ramallah and Amman areas. While the overwhelming majority reported that they were not happy at all about the decision to “go back,” differences in modes of adaptation and in visions of the future emerged from the interview data, some of which are gendered. Their diasporic imaginings of what they would find differed markedly from the reality they found, in both positive and negative ways, indicating ways in which the media shaped their views and not their parents or communities. Social media allow these youth to stay in touch with persons important to their lives back in the US, potentially rendering the social rupture less severe than was the case in prior decades. Data collection for this comparative study of transnational Arab American youth is occurring now.