This paper will focus on transnational activities to highlight how identity among Arab Americans is achieved through social relations that foster a sense of being both an in-group and out-group member. Specifically, it will demonstrate how identity parameters emerge as exchanges between the United States and Lebanon produce situations that foster a sense of inclusiveness as well as make apparent stark differences between the two cultures. After providing an overview of recent immigration from Lebanon and the Arab world using the New Immigrant Survey, two specific cases that involve transnational social relations between Americans and Lebanese will be analyzed: a resident-emigrant youth camp, and driving in Lebanon. The youth camp activities highlight the enactment of strong ties, and the case of driving draws attention to the case of negligible ties. Both situations illustrate interchanges in transnational activities that make salient dimensions of identity. Analyses also consider the ways in which American values and world views represent a potential resource, but are challenged in some contexts. Each illustrates that both: 1) places where social relations happen, and 2) the people engaged in interactions, combine to create new opportunities for theorizing identity that is political as well as social.