
How Morocco’s diaspora is remaking the nation
When Ayyoub Bouaddi chose Morocco over France, he wasn’t just making a football decision, he was enacting a theory of citizenship that has been in the making since 1880.
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Aomar Boum is a historian and anthropologist specializing in religious and ethnic minorities in North Africa and the Middle East. He holds the Maurice Amado Endowed Chair in Sephardic Studies at UCLA and is the co-author, with his daughter Majdouline Boum-Mendoza, of The Last Rekkas: Chronicles of a Foot Courier in Southern Morocco.

When Ayyoub Bouaddi chose Morocco over France, he wasn’t just making a football decision, he was enacting a theory of citizenship that has been in the making since 1880.