Aomar Boum is a resident member of the Academy of the Kingdom of Morocco and serves as the Maurice Amado Endowed Chair in Sephardic Studies at UCLA. Boum is also Faculty Fellow at the Université Internationale de Rabat and the co-founder and co-editor of Tamazgha Studies Journal. In addition to
Memories of Absence: How Muslims Remember Jews in Morocco, Boum is co-editor of
The Holocaust and North Africa and
Wartime North Africa: A Documentary History, 1934–1950 and co-author with his daughter Majdouline Boum-Mendoza of
The Last Rekkas: Chronicles of a Foot Courier in Southern Morocco.
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