Occupation
Associate Professor
Contact
Secondary Phone: (310) 825-9516
Department of Anthropology
University of California
375 Portola Plaza, 311 Haines Hall
Los Angeles
CA
90095
United States
ABOUT
As a socio-cultural anthropologist, my main research explores how Moroccan Muslims remember, picture, and construct Jewishness and Moroccan Judaism. I have published a number of academic articles on the representation of Jews in Moroccan museums, the migration of Saharan Jewry toward Israel in 1962, traditional Jewish education and the Alliance Israélite Universelle in southern Moroccan oases, the performance of toleration and Judeo-Muslim symbiosis in post-independence Morocco, the relationship between Muslim judges and Jews in southern Morocco, and the history and historiography of rural Moroccan Jewry. I have also published on ethnic folkdances and nationalism, traditional Islamic and modern education, as well as Hip-hop and youth dissent in Morocco, and youth culture.
Discipline
Anthropology
Sub Areas
Islamic Law
Islamic Studies
Judaic Studies
Maghreb Studies
Minorities
Geographic Areas of Interest
All Middle East
Maghreb
Morocco
Specialties
Hist & Histgy Of MENA
Islam
N Af Jewry
Languages
Arabic (native)
French (fluent)
Education
PhD
| 2006
| Anthro
| U of Arizona
Abstracts
Youth "Cyber-Noise": YouTube, Political Activism, and the Festivalization of Dissent in Morocco
“Net-Intifada”: Moroccan Youth, Cyberspaces, and the Palestinian Conflict
Ostrich Feathers, Trans-Saharan Trade and European Capitalism in North Africa
Telling Histories of Violence: Hassan II and His Opposition in Moroccan newspapers in the Era of Mohammed VI
Captives of the Mellah?: Moroccan Rural Jewry in the Colonial Postcard
