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Ten years later, we return to the Arab American National Museum to hold the 2024 in-person Arab American Studies Conference on the theme of Critical Futures in Arab American studies. In April 2014, the Arab American Studies Association held its inaugural conference at the Arab American Museum in Dearborn, Michigan, home to the largest concentration of Arab Americans in the United States. 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