Natalie Bernstien

Natalie Bernstien is a PhD student in History at UCLA, where she works on Moroccan Jewish history, focusing primarily on the city of Tangier during the Second World War. She previously lived in Meknes, Morocco as part of the Arabic Flagship Program Capstone year and in Casablanca as a Fulbright student researcher. Her work has been supported by the Alan D. Leve Center for Jewish Studies, the American Institute for Maghrib Studies (AIMS), the US Fulbright Program, and the Skirball Cultural Center.

Mustapha Outbakat is a first-generation indigenous Amazigh student from southern Morocco. He is a second-year PhD student in the Anthropology Department at UCLA, where he focuses primarily on Critical Urban Development, Urban Politics, Political Economy, Race and Indigeneity in the Maghrib, and Language Ideologies.