Moroccan anthropologist.

Aomar BOUM is an anthropologist.
He is one of the participants in the film ZIYARA by Simone Bitton (2020).

Biography
I am a socio-cultural anthropologist with a historical bent concerned with the social and cultural representation of and political discourse about religious and ethnic minorities in the Middle East and North Africa.

My ethnographic work engages the place of religious and ethnic minorities such as Jews, Baha'is, Shias and Christians in post-independence Middle Eastern and North African states.

My multi-disciplinary background and academic experience are at the intersections of Middle Eastern and North African studies, Islamic studies, Religious studies, African studies and Jewish studies.

Much of my work has focused on the anthropology and history of Jewish-Muslim relations from the 19th century to the present. I have also written on different topics such as Moroccan Jewish historiography, Islamic archives and manuscripts, education, music, youth, Holocaust, anti-Semitism, migration, and sports among other things.

Degrees
Ph.D., University of Arizona (2006)

Publications

Books

2018
The Holocaust and North Africa. Stanford: Stanford University Press. [co-editor Sarah A. Stein]. [Edited Book].

2016a
A Concise History of the Middle East. 11th edition. Boulder, CO.: Westview Press [co-authored with A. Goldschmidt].

2016b
Historical Dictionary of Morocco. Third Edition. Lanham, Maryland: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers [co-authored with Thomas K. Park].

2013a
Memories of Absence: How Muslims Remember Jews in Morocco. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press.

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