Aomar Boum
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 507191 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Aomar Boum |
| NOMBRES | Aomar |
| APELLIDO | Boum |
| FIRMA | BOUM A |
| AFILIACIONES | University of Arizona |
| VERIFICADO | No |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 35 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 53 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 33 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 2 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2003 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2025 |
| ÍNDICE H | 5 |
Essaouira’s Atlantic Gateway Transcultural Legacy and King Mohammed VI’s Atlantic Shift
On Coming Home
After a year and a half in pandemic exile in Los Angeles, I made it home to a village at the foot of the Bani Mountains, my bled, Lamhamid (fig. 1). Bled connotes a rural expanse, kinship, ancestors, and ways of being. It is the local and the familiar. I was not the only native returnee in the village that summer of 2021. Everywhere I turned I met migrants who had traveled back to the bled. This was unusual for the many villagers who live and wor…
Trails of Posters
Introduction
In this introduction, we chart the intellectual journey of Susan Gilson Miller and discuss her scholarly contributions to the field of North African Studies, Moroccan historiography and Moroccan Jewish history. We note Miller’s long commitment to foregrounding Maghribi voices, including female and minority accounts. Miller’s work on the Jewish communities of Morocco in particular has skillfully shown the complex position of these communities acro…
Sharing the Sacra
“Shared” sites, where members of distinct, or factionally opposed, religious communities interact—or fail to interact—is the focus of this volume. Chapters based on fieldwork from such diverse sites as India, Nepal, Sri Lanka, China, Turkey, Morocco, Tunisia, and Vietnam demonstrate how sharing and tolerance are both more complex and multifaceted than they are often recognized to be. By including both historical processes (the development of Chin…
A “Church of / for Poetry”
This article examines the literary and spiritual initiatives undertaken by Henri Bosco and his collaborators, notably Captain Léopold Justinard, in interwar colonial Morocco. Focusing on the Revue Aguedal , inaugurated by Bosco in Rabat in 1935, I highlight the revue's primary role as a cultural conduit between French and indigenous Amazigh and Arab intellectuals. Bosco's concept of a “poetic church,” championed by contributors such as René Guéno…
Wartime North Africa
This book, the first-ever collection of primary documents on North African history and the Holocaust, gives voice to the diversity of those involved—Muslims, Christians, and Jews; women, men, and children; black, brown, and white; the unknown and the notable; locals, refugees, the displaced, and the interned; soldiers, officers, bureaucrats, volunteer fighters, and the forcibly recruited. At times their calls are lofty, full of spiritual lamentat…
Poets of the Revolutions
The Rise of a Saharan City
The Saharan city of Laâyoune, located on the Atlantic coast, was founded in 1938 under Spanish colonialism as a small military post, eventually becoming Spanish Sahara’s administrative and political centre. It grew massively following development of the phosphate industry at Boucraa in the 1940s and Morocco’s annexation of Western Sahara territory in 1975, after Spain’s withdrawal. Its demographics have gradually shifted, with many non-Sahrawi Mo…
The Political Lives of Saints
Reviewed by: The Political Lives of Saints: Christian-Muslim Mediation in Egypt by Angie Heo Aomar Boum (bio) The Political Lives of Saints: Christian-Muslim Mediation in Egypt Angie Heo Oakland, CA: University of California Press, 2018. 316 Pages. In the last few decades ethnic and religious minorities in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) have continued their long postcolonial migration outside of the region. These migratory trends risk to…
A Concise History of the Middle East
An introduction to the history of this turbulent region from the beginnings of Islam to the present day, this widely acclaimed text by Arthur Goldschmidt Jr. is distinguished by its clear style, broad scope, and balanced treatment. It covers a vast range of topics, including the evolution of Islamic institutions and culture, the influence of the West, the modernization efforts of Middle Eastern governments, the struggle of various peoples for pol…
The Holocaust and North Africa
The Holocaust is usually understood as a European story. Yet, this pivotal episode unfolded across North Africa and reverberated through politics, literature, memoir, and memory—Muslim as well as Jewish—in the post-war years. The Holocaust and North Africa offers the first English-language study of the unfolding events in North Africa, pushing at the boundaries of Holocaust Studies and North African Studies, and suggesting, powerfully, that neith…
Juifs et musulmans en Algérie
Established under the sponsorship of UNESCO in 2009, the Aladdin Project (in French: Projet Aladin) is a Paris-based international NGO that advocates the ‘building [of] bridges of knowledge between
A Moroccan Kabbalist in the White House
A Moroccan Kabbalist in the White House:Understanding the Relationship between Jared Kushner and Moroccan Jewish Mysticism Aomar Boum (bio) Few political pundits believed that Donald J. Trump would defeat a political giant like Hillary R. Clinton in the 2016 American elections. The mere image of Trump, a reality-television personality who found huge and unquestionable support among Christian evangelicals, in the White House excited derision in ma…
The elegant plume
Ostrich feathers have long been an important export from Africa to different European markets. The ostrich plume was a key part of the luxury trade across Mediterranean shores for centuries. The main source of ostrich feathers was from wild ostriches especially from North and West Africa. By the middle of the nineteenth century, the rising economic value of ostrich plumes triggered colonial French and British competition over this luxury commodit…
Black Morocco
Black Morocco: A History of Slavery, Race, and Islam is a timely and welcome addition to Moroccan and African history at a time when civil rights activists and members of human rights organisations
Breached Initiations
Work theorizing youth subcultures, especially of the spectacular kind, has provided an influential approach for understanding the lives of young people for the past 40 years in anthropology and sociology. In this review, we frame current literature through a lens we call "breached initiations." We motivate our organization of the literature into processes we term "delaying," "hopscotching," and "opting out," referring to ways in which youth engag…
The Virtual Genizah”
After the establishment of the State of Israel, the Zionist narrative dominated the histories and historiographies of Middle Eastern and North African Jewries. Accordingly, Jews and Arabs were largely kept as distinct binaries divided by the intellectual walls that separated Middle East studies and Jewish studies programs. Local North African and Middle Eastern scholars also silenced or overlooked the Jewish dimension of Middle Eastern societies …
Partners against Anti-Semitism
In the late 1920s, Bernard Lecache founded the International League Against Anti-Semitism (LICA) in Paris to raise public awareness in France and other European countries about hatred of Jews and to mobilise Jews and non-Jews to take action against racial and ethnic discrimination. The rise of anti-Semitic discourse in the French Algerian press and other North African circles which culminated in the riots of Constantine in August 1934 led the Eur…
Memories of Absence
There is a Moroccan saying: A market without Jews is like bread without salt. Once a thriving community, by the late 1980s, 240,000 Jews had emigrated from Morocco. Today, fewer than 4,000 Jews remain. Despite a centuries-long presence, the Jewish narrative in Moroccan history has largely been suppressed through national historical amnesia, Jewish absence, and a growing dismay over the Palestinian conflict. Memories of Absence investigates how fo…
Shoot-outs for the nation
In this article, I offer a new macro analytical reading of Algerian–Moroccan relations in the context of football (soccer). Using Durkheim's and Turner's anthropological concepts of social effervescence and religious rituals, I contend that football provided an alternative social space for Hassan II to settle political scores with neighbouring Algeria. In addition, I argue that by involving the military, security agencies and national elite in th…
The “Jewish Question” in Postcolonial Moroccan Cinema
In this historically and anthropologically oriented article, we situate the recent wave of Jewish-themed Moroccan films within the context of the liberalizing transformations and associated nationalist narratives promoted by the current Moroccan regime. Reflecting Mohammed VI's commitment to widening the space of civil society, the task of enacting these transformations and producing these narratives devolves increasingly to nonstate agents in th…
The Performance of Convivencia
This article argues that Medieval Islamic Spain (with its mythical era of Convivencia) has been selectively used as a "moral past" to highlight the possibilities of Jewish-Muslim interfaith dialogue and religious toleration in our times. Using Morocco as a case study, I claim that interfaith dialogue in the Arab World has largely taken place at elite levels rather than among common people or in schools. Accordingly, the conceptual image of al-And…
Western Sahara
Western Sahara: war, nationalism, and conflict irresolution (Syracuse Studies on Peace and Conflict Resolution) by Stephen Zunes and Jacob Mundy, Syracuse, NY: Syracuse University Press, 2010, 424
Berber culture on the world stage
From 'Little Jerusalems' to the Promised Land
This article provides an ethnographic and historical perspective on the migration of rural Jewish communities from the region of Sous, southern Morocco, to Israel in the early 1960s. Building on theories of the relationship between diaspora, homeland, and nationalism, and using ethnographic data collected among Moroccan Jews and Muslims from the region, I argue that even though the economic factors played a substantial role in persuading rural Je…
The “Jewish Question” in Postcolonial Moroccan Cinema
In this historically and anthropologically oriented article, we situate the recent wave of Jewish-themed Moroccan films within the context of the liberalizing transformations and associated nationalist narratives promoted by the current Moroccan regime. Reflecting Mohammed VI's commitment to widening the space of civil society, the task of enacting these transformations and producing these narratives devolves increasingly to nonstate agents in th…
The Plastic Eye
This article explores the ways in which Jews are represented in two private Moroccan museums today. As forms of contestation that give visibility to Jews, these museums go beyond current anthropological understandings of museums as 'state-projects' of representation. I argue that this representational complexity and the Moroccan state's attitude toward the museums are best understood through the native Moroccan ethnometapragmatic concept 'the pla…
Partners against Anti-Semitism
In the late 1920s, Bernard Lecache founded the International League Against Anti-Semitism (LICA) in Paris to raise public awareness in France and other European countries about hatred of Jews and to mobilise Jews and non-Jews to take action against racial and ethnic discrimination. The rise of anti-Semitic discourse in the French Algerian press and other North African circles which culminated in the riots of Constantine in August 1934 led the Eur…
The Political Coherence of Educational Incoherence
This article is based on an ethnographic study I conducted in southern Morocco during 2004. I explore the historical, ideological, and cultural background behind educational specialization among Moroccan university students. I describe how French colonial educational policies and postindependence Moroccan national schooling ideologies have created a national system of double standards that: (1) privileges French-educated urban middle- and upper-c…
Saharan Jewry
Scholars of North African Jewries have recently begun to study, rethink and challenge some of the field's terminology and conceptualisations of the Maghribi Jewish experience, including, for example, terms such as 'Berber Jews', 'Arab Jews' and even the most deeply entrenched 'Sephardic Jews'. Such categories of analysis remain largely unexamined, despite the fact that they constitute an essential part of larger colonial and post-colonial discour…
Wartime North Africa
This book, the first-ever collection of primary documents on North African history and the Holocaust, gives voice to the diversity of those involved—Muslims, Christians, and Jews; women, men, and children; black, brown, and white; the unknown and the notable; locals, refugees, the displaced, and the interned; soldiers, officers, bureaucrats, volunteer fighters, and the forcibly recruited. At times their calls are lofty, full of spiritual lamentat…
Breached Initiations
Work theorizing youth subcultures, especially of the spectacular kind, has provided an influential approach for understanding the lives of young people for the past 40 years in anthropology and sociology. In this review, we frame current literature through a lens we call "breached initiations." We motivate our organization of the literature into processes we term "delaying," "hopscotching," and "opting out," referring to ways in which youth engag…
The elegant plume
Ostrich feathers have long been an important export from Africa to different European markets. The ostrich plume was a key part of the luxury trade across Mediterranean shores for centuries. The main source of ostrich feathers was from wild ostriches especially from North and West Africa. By the middle of the nineteenth century, the rising economic value of ostrich plumes triggered colonial French and British competition over this luxury commodit…
Juifs et musulmans en Algérie
Established under the sponsorship of UNESCO in 2009, the Aladdin Project (in French: Projet Aladin) is a Paris-based international NGO that advocates the ‘building [of] bridges of knowledge between
Black Morocco
Black Morocco: A History of Slavery, Race, and Islam is a timely and welcome addition to Moroccan and African history at a time when civil rights activists and members of human rights organisations
The Virtual Genizah”
After the establishment of the State of Israel, the Zionist narrative dominated the histories and historiographies of Middle Eastern and North African Jewries. Accordingly, Jews and Arabs were largely kept as distinct binaries divided by the intellectual walls that separated Middle East studies and Jewish studies programs. Local North African and Middle Eastern scholars also silenced or overlooked the Jewish dimension of Middle Eastern societies …
Shoot-outs for the nation
In this article, I offer a new macro analytical reading of Algerian–Moroccan relations in the context of football (soccer). Using Durkheim's and Turner's anthropological concepts of social effervescence and religious rituals, I contend that football provided an alternative social space for Hassan II to settle political scores with neighbouring Algeria. In addition, I argue that by involving the military, security agencies and national elite in th…
Ben Barka
Ben Barka: The Moroccan Equation (Morocco) 2001. 84 min. Director: Simone Bitton. Moroccan Arabic and French with English subtitles and English narration. Producer: Article Z, Les Films de la Passerelle, ARTE France, RTBF (Belgium), Canal Horizons. Distributor: First Run Icarus Films, 32 Court St. 21st Fl. Brooklyn, NY 11201. 800-876-1710; Fax: 718-488-8642. [email protected]. - Volume 37 Issue 2
Forget Baghdad (Iraq, Israel) 2003. 111 minutes. In Arabic, Hebrew and English, with English subtitles and narration. Director
Forget Baghdad (Iraq, Israel) 2003. 111 minutes. In Arabic, Hebrew and English, with English subtitles and narration. Director: Samir; Producer: Dschoint Ventschr Filmproduktion, Zürich; Distributor: Arab Film Distribution, 10035 35th Avenue NE, Seattle, WA 98125 (206-322-0882; fax: 206-322-4586; [email protected]; http://www.arabfilm.com/). - Volume 39 Issue 1
African Visions
Honorable Murder (Jordan) 2004.55 min. In Swedish and Arabic with English subtitles. Producer
Honorable Murder (Jordan) 2004.55 min. In Swedish and Arabic with English subtitles. Producer: Mats Billberg Johansson. Reporters: Lena Pettersson, and Peter Löfgren. Distributor: Films for the Humanities and Sciences, PO Box 2053, Princeton NJ 08543-2053 (800-257-5126; 609-671-1000; [email protected]; www.films.com). - Volume 41 Issue 1
All about Darfur (Sudan/UK) 2005 Color 81 min. In Arabic with English subtitles. Director/Producer
All about Darfur (Sudan/UK) 2005 Color 81 min. In Arabic with English subtitles. Director/Producer: Taghreed Elsanhouri; Distributor: California Newsreel, Order Department, PO Box 2284, South Burlington VT 05407 (toll free: 877 811-7495; fax: 802 846-1850 [email protected]; www.newsreel.org). - Volume 41 Issue 2
Rebel between Spirit and Law
Reviewed by: Rebel Between Spirit and Law: Ahmad Zarruq, Sainthood, and Authority in Islam Aomar Boum Kugle, Scott . 2006. Rebel Between Spirit and Law: Ahmad Zarruq, Sainthood, and Authority in Islam. Bloomington and Indianapolis: Indiana University Press. 344 pp. $49.95 (cloth). In Rebel between Spirit and Law, Scott Kugle provides an interesting analysis of the religious authority and lineage of saintly scholars in North Africa, the Arabian Pe…
The Political Coherence of Educational Incoherence
This article is based on an ethnographic study I conducted in southern Morocco during 2004. I explore the historical, ideological, and cultural background behind educational specialization among Moroccan university students. I describe how French colonial educational policies and postindependence Moroccan national schooling ideologies have created a national system of double standards that: (1) privileges French-educated urban middle- and upper-c…
From 'Little Jerusalems' to the Promised Land
This article provides an ethnographic and historical perspective on the migration of rural Jewish communities from the region of Sous, southern Morocco, to Israel in the early 1960s. Building on theories of the relationship between diaspora, homeland, and nationalism, and using ethnographic data collected among Moroccan Jews and Muslims from the region, I argue that even though the economic factors played a substantial role in persuading rural Je…
The Plastic Eye
This article explores the ways in which Jews are represented in two private Moroccan museums today. As forms of contestation that give visibility to Jews, these museums go beyond current anthropological understandings of museums as 'state-projects' of representation. I argue that this representational complexity and the Moroccan state's attitude toward the museums are best understood through the native Moroccan ethnometapragmatic concept 'the pla…
Saharan Jewry
Scholars of North African Jewries have recently begun to study, rethink and challenge some of the field's terminology and conceptualisations of the Maghribi Jewish experience, including, for example, terms such as 'Berber Jews', 'Arab Jews' and even the most deeply entrenched 'Sephardic Jews'. Such categories of analysis remain largely unexamined, despite the fact that they constitute an essential part of larger colonial and post-colonial discour…
The “Jewish Question” in Postcolonial Moroccan Cinema
In this historically and anthropologically oriented article, we situate the recent wave of Jewish-themed Moroccan films within the context of the liberalizing transformations and associated nationalist narratives promoted by the current Moroccan regime. Reflecting Mohammed VI's commitment to widening the space of civil society, the task of enacting these transformations and producing these narratives devolves increasingly to nonstate agents in th…
The Performance of Convivencia
This article argues that Medieval Islamic Spain (with its mythical era of Convivencia) has been selectively used as a "moral past" to highlight the possibilities of Jewish-Muslim interfaith dialogue and religious toleration in our times. Using Morocco as a case study, I claim that interfaith dialogue in the Arab World has largely taken place at elite levels rather than among common people or in schools. Accordingly, the conceptual image of al-And…
Western Sahara
Western Sahara: war, nationalism, and conflict irresolution (Syracuse Studies on Peace and Conflict Resolution) by Stephen Zunes and Jacob Mundy, Syracuse, NY: Syracuse University Press, 2010, 424
Berber culture on the world stage
Memories of Absence
There is a Moroccan saying: A market without Jews is like bread without salt. Once a thriving community, by the late 1980s, 240,000 Jews had emigrated from Morocco. Today, fewer than 4,000 Jews remain. Despite a centuries-long presence, the Jewish narrative in Moroccan history has largely been suppressed through national historical amnesia, Jewish absence, and a growing dismay over the Palestinian conflict. Memories of Absence investigates how fo…
Shoot-outs for the nation
In this article, I offer a new macro analytical reading of Algerian–Moroccan relations in the context of football (soccer). Using Durkheim's and Turner's anthropological concepts of social effervescence and religious rituals, I contend that football provided an alternative social space for Hassan II to settle political scores with neighbouring Algeria. In addition, I argue that by involving the military, security agencies and national elite in th…
The Virtual Genizah”
After the establishment of the State of Israel, the Zionist narrative dominated the histories and historiographies of Middle Eastern and North African Jewries. Accordingly, Jews and Arabs were largely kept as distinct binaries divided by the intellectual walls that separated Middle East studies and Jewish studies programs. Local North African and Middle Eastern scholars also silenced or overlooked the Jewish dimension of Middle Eastern societies …
Partners against Anti-Semitism
In the late 1920s, Bernard Lecache founded the International League Against Anti-Semitism (LICA) in Paris to raise public awareness in France and other European countries about hatred of Jews and to mobilise Jews and non-Jews to take action against racial and ethnic discrimination. The rise of anti-Semitic discourse in the French Algerian press and other North African circles which culminated in the riots of Constantine in August 1934 led the Eur…
The elegant plume
Ostrich feathers have long been an important export from Africa to different European markets. The ostrich plume was a key part of the luxury trade across Mediterranean shores for centuries. The main source of ostrich feathers was from wild ostriches especially from North and West Africa. By the middle of the nineteenth century, the rising economic value of ostrich plumes triggered colonial French and British competition over this luxury commodit…
Black Morocco
Black Morocco: A History of Slavery, Race, and Islam is a timely and welcome addition to Moroccan and African history at a time when civil rights activists and members of human rights organisations
Breached Initiations
Work theorizing youth subcultures, especially of the spectacular kind, has provided an influential approach for understanding the lives of young people for the past 40 years in anthropology and sociology. In this review, we frame current literature through a lens we call "breached initiations." We motivate our organization of the literature into processes we term "delaying," "hopscotching," and "opting out," referring to ways in which youth engag…
A Moroccan Kabbalist in the White House
A Moroccan Kabbalist in the White House:Understanding the Relationship between Jared Kushner and Moroccan Jewish Mysticism Aomar Boum (bio) Few political pundits believed that Donald J. Trump would defeat a political giant like Hillary R. Clinton in the 2016 American elections. The mere image of Trump, a reality-television personality who found huge and unquestionable support among Christian evangelicals, in the White House excited derision in ma…
A Concise History of the Middle East
An introduction to the history of this turbulent region from the beginnings of Islam to the present day, this widely acclaimed text by Arthur Goldschmidt Jr. is distinguished by its clear style, broad scope, and balanced treatment. It covers a vast range of topics, including the evolution of Islamic institutions and culture, the influence of the West, the modernization efforts of Middle Eastern governments, the struggle of various peoples for pol…
The Holocaust and North Africa
The Holocaust is usually understood as a European story. Yet, this pivotal episode unfolded across North Africa and reverberated through politics, literature, memoir, and memory—Muslim as well as Jewish—in the post-war years. The Holocaust and North Africa offers the first English-language study of the unfolding events in North Africa, pushing at the boundaries of Holocaust Studies and North African Studies, and suggesting, powerfully, that neith…
Juifs et musulmans en Algérie
Established under the sponsorship of UNESCO in 2009, the Aladdin Project (in French: Projet Aladin) is a Paris-based international NGO that advocates the ‘building [of] bridges of knowledge between
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