Rate My Professor Aomar Boum

Boum is the author of Memories of Absence: How Muslims Remember Jews in Morocco (Stanford University Press, 2013) and Undesirables: A Holocaust Journey to North Africa, a graphic history illustrated by Nadjib Berber (Stanford University Press, 2023), which received a gold medal in the graphic novel/drawn work category from the Independent Publisher Book Awards. He co-edited The Holocaust and North Africa with Sarah A. Stein (Stanford University Press, 2018) and Wartime North Africa: A Documentary History, 1934–1950 with Sarah A. Stein (Stanford University Press, 2022). Additional key publications include A Concise History of the Middle East, eleventh edition, co-authored with Arthur Goldschmidt (Westview Press, 2016), and Historical Dictionary of Morocco, third edition, co-authored with Thomas K. Park (Rowman & Littlefield, 2016). He has published numerous articles in journals such as The Journal of North African Studies, International Journal of Middle East Studies, and Ethnos. Previously Assistant Professor of International Studies and Islamic Studies at Portland State University, Boum held the Judith B. and Burton P. Resnick Fellowship at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in 2007 and was inducted into the National Academy of the Kingdom of Morocco on April 24, 2025.