This paper calls for a novel paradigm of area and ethnic studies by bridging transnational turns from the heretofore separate fields of, on the one hand, Middle East and Arab American studies, and on the other, Latin American and Latino studies. I focus on the Federação de Entidades Árabes das Americas (Federation of Arab Associations of the Americas,” abbreviated as FEARAB in Portuguese and Spanish), a social movement of Arab migrants and descendants in Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Paraguay, and elsewhere, founded in Buenos Aires in 1973. This paper asks how FEARAB activists fostered ties with Southern Cone authoritarian regimes, pan-Arab states, and U.S. Arab civil rights groups. Under military rule in the Southern Cone, FEARAB activists set out to forge cultural, diplomatic, and economic bonds between the Arab world and these Americas as well as to build a “pan-American” alliance among themselves across this hemisphere, bringing them into contact with the “Association of Arab-American University Graduates” (AAUG), a social movement that began in Michigan in 1967. Their transnational mobilization reveals an Arab América across the hemisphere and beyond.