Aomar Boum is an associate professor in the Department of Anthropology at the University of California, Los Angeles. He is interested in the place of religious and ethnic minorities such as Jews, Baha'is, Shias and Christian in post-independence Middle Eastern and North African nation states. He is the author of Memories of Absence: How Muslims Remember Jews in Morocco (Stanford University Press, 2013). This book was translated into Arabic and published in Morocco in 2015 by Mohammed V University. He is also the co-author of the Historical Dictionary of Morocco (Rowman and Littlefield, 2016) and The Holocaust and North Africa (Stanford University Press, 2018).

Thomas K. Park teaches in the Department of Anthropology at the University of Arizona, USA.