Between here and home, the Arab diaspora has always built its communities despite distance. In the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, the first Syrian and Lebanese diasporic communities arrived in places like Brooklyn and Detroit, carrying with them not only luggage but fragments of language, ritual, music, memory, and a distinct identity, establishing newspapers, coffeehouses, churches, mosques, mutual aid societies, and storefronts that transformed their home away from home into a community. What emerged was not merely an immigrant enclave, but a living archive of ghurba: the condition of estrangement, displacement, and perpetual negotiation between where one is and where one belongs. The theme “Between Here and Home” draws from this history and from the lived realities of Arab communities today, recognizing that for many of us, home is neither singular nor fixed and may exist in the art we do, the language we use, the inherited stories we tell, the political struggle we face, the intellectual pursuits we deliver on, and the community spaces we cultivate. Northwestern Arab Conference (NAC) this year seeks to inhabit that in-between space deliberately and meaningfully, inviting participants across disciplines—from medicine and technology to film, journalism, entrepreneurship, policy, and art—to think critically and creatively about the futures we are building and the histories we carry with us.