2025 | “The life and legacy of a magnanimous Moroccan messenger. In honoring his father, UCLA professor Aomar Boum and his daughter interwove family and national histories.” Álvaro Castillo, June 12. |
2025 | “Aomar Boum inducted into the National Academy of the Kingdom of Morocco.” UCLA College, May 13. |
2025 | “Aomar Boum Brings Moroccan influence to California campuses.” Tel Quel, May 8. |
2024 | “Interview: ‘ilm wa hadara.” Al Oula TV. June 5. |
2024 | “L’historien anthropologue marocain Aomar Boum présente et signe à Paris son dernier ouvrage “Le Dernier Rekkas.” MAP News, June 2. |
2024 | « Maghreb des livres: “Le Dernier Rekkas,” récit du père de l’historien anthropologue Aomar Boum.” Yabiladi, June 3. |
2024 | “Interview: C’est-à-dire with Hanane Harrath and Ahmed Skounti. 2M TV.” May 28. |
2024 | “Siel 2024: L’anthrologue Aomar Boum dévoile son nouvel ouvrage “Le Dernier Rekkas”.” MAP News, May 18. |
2024 | “Siel 2024: Aomar Boum présente son nouvel ouvrage “Le Dernier Rekkas”.” Hespress, May 18. |
2024 | “Interview: Dernier Rekkas.” MAP TV. May 16. |
2024 | "الانثروبولوجي عمر بوم يصدر "الرقاص الاخير" قصة ساعي بريد في جنوب المغرب." وكالة المغرب العربي للانباء. مايو ١٦. |
2024 | “Trois Questions à Aomar Boum auteur de l’ouvrage “Le Dernier Rekkas.” Express MAP, May 14. |
2024 | “L’anthropologue Aomar Boum publie “Le Dernier Rekkas” Chroniques d’un messager-piéton dans le sud du Maroc.” MAP News, May 14. |
2024 | “Aomar Boum fait rayonner le Maroc sur les camps californiens.” TelQuel, April 23. |
2023 | “The Produder of Disney’s ‘Wish’ achieved a dream with the film and hopes to inspire Others.” Los Angeles Times, October 20. |
2023 | “I was Fortunate to be Among the First Cohort of Al Akhawayn University Students.” The Alumni Magazine, Fall Edition Al Akhawayn Alumniu Association. Feature Essay. |
2023 | “Aomar Boum: La Question des minorités au Maroc n’est plus taboue.” L’Economiste, July 23. [Amine Boushaba]. Feature Essay |
2023 | “New Graphic Novel is a Memorial for Holocaust Undesirables.” The Markaz Review, July 17. [Katie Logan] |
2023 | “Un nouveau roman graphique est un mémorial pour les indésirables de l’Holocauste.” [French]" |
2023 | “Review of the Undesirables: A Holocaust Journey to North Africa.” Jewish Voice for Labor, June 22. [Mike Cushman] Interview |
2023 | “Aomar Boum Receives Gold Medal for Graphic Novel about Holocaust.” UCLA Newsroom, June 15. [Manon Snyder]. Feature Essay |
2023 | “Interview de Aomar Boum: Je possède le plein droit de faire des recherches sur le judaïsme.” Maroc-Hebdo, April 28-May 4. [Wissam El Bouzdaini]. Interview |
2023 | “Where are North African Jews.” Africa Is A Country, April 26. [Grégory Pierrot]. Feature Essay |
2023 | “Plongée dans l’histoire oubliée de la présence Nazie au Maroc.” TelQuel, April 10. Interview. |
2022 | “A Holocaust story plays out far from Europe.” Jewish Herald Voice, December 8. [Aaron Howard]. |
2022 | “FDR’s Broken Promise: The Allies Defeated the Axis Powers in North Africa- But the Concentration Camps Stayed Open.” Forward, November 8. |
2022 | “80 years ago, Nazi Germany occupied Tunisia- but North Africans’ experiences of World War II often Go Unheard.” The Conversation, November 15. [With Sarah A. Stein]. |
2022 | “Los Angeles Jews Honor Muslim Scholar of Moroccan Jewry.” Jewish News Syndicate (JNS), November 22. [Karmel Melamed]. |
2022 | “L’historien Aomar Boum coédite un roman illustré sur l’Holocauste en Afrique du nord.” Yabilaldi, October 24. [Ghita Zine] |
2022 | “A Weapon of War: Famine from Wartime North Africa to Ukraine Today.” LA Review of Books, July 27. [With Sarah A. Stein]. |
2022 | “Praise Poems Depict North African Jewish Response of Events of World War II.” Jewish Journal, July 12. [With Sarah A. Stein]. |
2022 | “How North African Jews Have Been Erased From Holocaust History.” Haaretz, June 27. [With Sarah A. Stein]. |
2021 | “The Muslim who Brought my Jewish Moroccan Heritage to UCLA.” Jewish Journal, December 10-16. [David Suissa] |
2021 | “Aomar Boum Believes in the Power of Stories to Unite: UCLA’s newly appointed Maurice Amado Professor of Sephardic Studies says Sharing narratives is a key to understanding, tolerance.” UCLA Newsroom, November 10. [Jonathan Riggs] |
Media
2021 – “African scholars say it’s time to discuss the Holocaust, again”
Forward.com, March 10, 2021.
2019 – “What We Lose when We Ignore the Holocaust History in North Africa.” Medium.com, July 25, 2019. [With Sarah A. Stein].
2015 – Interview. “L’Exil des juifs des juifs marocains est une perte majeure.” Telquel 679 24-30 July.
2013 – Voices of Anti-Semitism, a podcast series. Interviewed by Aleisa Fishman. United States Holocaust Memorial Museum.
2011 – The Egyptian Question. Arizona Illustrated. Arizona Public Media.
2010 – Cyberspaces and Jewish Places. Ha’aretz Daily Newspaper