The poetry of Langston Hughes has traveled extensively into Arabic through translation, both in formal publications and on the internet. This chapter explores a range of these translations, in Arab American contexts in the United States and within the Arab world, focusing in particular on one poem, “Harlem [2].” It examines the use of Hughes as a symbol of Black America, and representative of Black poetry and arts, as well as some of the intricacies of English-Arabic translation, including a focus on content and meaning over form and stylistics in rendering his work in Arabic.