The eyes of the world were on Tahrir Square in Cairo in late January and early February 2011, as millions of Egyptians called for a new government and the departure of Hosni Mubarak. But this political drama was particularly enthralling for Egyptians and other Arabs living in the US, for whom it was an opportunity to have new conversations, in Arab communities and with others, about Arab politics and the meanings of their identities. This paper will examine the experience of Egyptians and other Arabs in New York City as they watch both the fall of the Mubarak regime and the post-Mubarak transition. First, it will examine how Egyptian-Americans were constructed in mainstream news media and transmissions during these moments, as suddenly Steinway Street's "Little Egypt" became the focus of news reports in New York's local media, including television (especially New York One) and print media (especially the New York Times, and its online City Room blog). Then, reflectively, it will examine how young Egyptian-Americans and other Arab-Americans, contemporaries of those who turned out in Tahrir Square, constructed their own narratives of the Egyptian revolution and of their own Arab selves. Research for this paper is ongoing, and derives from my existing fieldwork in the Arab communities of New York City.