Media

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]

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