Maurice M. Roumani

Maurice M. Roumani (Hebrew: מוריס רומני) is a professor of Politics and International Relations, Religion and Society of the Middle East and the Founder of the J. R. Elyachar Center for Studies in Sephardi Heritage at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev in Israel.

from The University of Chicago, where he studied International Relations and the Middle East with Hans Morgenthau and Leonard Binder.

He was offered a teaching position at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, where he established in 1981 the J. R. Elyachar Center for the Study of Sephardi Heritage.

The center offered 22 courses in Sephardi history, literature, anthropology, sociology, philosophy, ladino and music.

[4] Roumani continues his research projects about Libya and Libyan Jewry, the role of Colonialism and Arab Nationalism in North African and the Middle East, the Arab-Israel Conflict, ethnic relations, the applications of Holocaust policies in North Africa and Jewish-Muslim relations in the Modern period.