On Thursday, March 5, scholars will explore Jews and Muslims in French North Africa and the story of King Mohammed V of Morocco during the Holocaust. During World War II, Jews in North Africa were living under French colonial rule. Understanding that the Holocaust reached Casablanca and Tunis — not just Paris and Warsaw — immediately broadens the story. But Muslim-Jewish relations in North Africa during World War II were far more complex. That shared and divergent history remains largely unknown in many American conversations about the Holocaust.

Source: The North Africa Journal February 23, 2026 21:56 UTC