Aomar Boum
A historical anthropologist, Professor and Maurice Amado Chair in Sephardic Studies in the Department of Anthropology, Department of History and Department of Near Eastern Languages and Cultures at the University of California, Los Angeles. Boum is also Faculty Fellow at Université Internationale de Rabat, Morocco. The co-founder and co-editor of Tamazgha Studies Journal, co-founder of the Amazigh Studies initiative at UCLA, and co-founder, co-director of the Moroccan Jewish Studies Initiative at UCLA. A native of a Saharan community in southeastern Morocco, Boum has interdisciplinary training in anthropology, history, Islamic studies, Judaic Studies and Middle Eastern and North African studies. Boum is interested in the place of religious and ethnic minorities such as Jews, Bahais, Shia, Amazigh, and Christians in post-independence Middle Eastern and North African nation states. Boum is the co-author of the forthcoming book: The Last Rekkas of Morocco.