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Jewish Identity in Contemporary Morocco: Memory, Reconciliation, and Citizenship
Tuesday, October 15th
123 Buttrick
Noon to 1:30pm
Aomar Boum is Professor and Maurice Amado Chair in Sephardic Studies in the Departments of Anthropology, History, and Near Eastern Languages and Cultures at UCLA. A historical anthropologist, Boum is interested in the place of religious and ethnic minorities such as Jews, Baha’is, Shias and Christian in post-independence Middle Eastern and North African nation states. He is the author and editor of many books, including Memories of Absence: How Muslims Remember Jews in Morocco (Stanford University Press, 2013), The Holocaust and North Africa (Stanford University Press, 2018), Wartime North Africa: A Documentary History, 1934-1950 (Stanford University Press, 2022), the graphic history: Undesirables: A Holocaust Journey to North Africa (Stanford University Press, 2023) and, most recently (in French), The Last Rekkas: Chronicles of a Foot Courier in Southern Morocco (Langages du Sud, 2024).
Lunch will be provided on a first come, first served basis.
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