Racial liminalities and ambiguities have created major stumbling blocks for the inclusion of Arab Americans in race and ethnic studies. Census Bureau and federal classifications of Arab Americans as “white” often justify this exclusion under the assumption that this status carries with it privileges and options. While some segments of Arab Americans do enjoy “white” privilege and are not treated as minorities, others feel that they are minorities – and are treated as such - in the US. Therefore, the dominant racial rubric is just too rigid for broad studies on Arab Americans and creates a framework that calls into question the legitimacy and relevancy of Arab American Studies in Racial and Ethnic Studies. The way out of this dilemma is to broaden the approach to racial and ethnic studies and to disrupt disciplinary boundaries through using interdisciplinary and transnational approaches. Interdisciplinarity enables the use and combination of a variety of approaches from different fields so as to hybridize methodologies, subjects and frameworks. Transnational studies extend the arena of research across national borders and away from traditional disciplinary definitions based on national belonging and location. While it is possible to challenge these boundaries from within a discipline, this paper will argue that Cultural Studies provides a flexible yet solid home for an interdisciplinary and transnational approach to Arab American Studies. Through an examination of the interdisciplinary fields of Cultural Studies and Arab American Studies, this paper will argue that the two are compatible matches that can address the many historical social, cultural, linguistic and political issues that face Arab Americans. Using ethnographic experiences and knowledge from past activism on behalf of Arab Americans, the central thesis of this paper will be that race and ethnic studies, transnational and diaspora students can concurrently coexist under the rubrics of Cultural Studies and Arab American Studies.