Biography

Noam grew up in Israel and earned his B.A. from Sciences Po Paris in 2023, where his final dissertation examined the impact of colonisation on Jewish-Muslim relations among Maghrebi communities in France. In 2024, he completed an MPhil in Muslim-Jewish Relations at the University of Cambridge, focusing on how Yemeni Jews negotiated their Arabicized heritage after immigrating to the Holy Land. He has interned and worked with organizations fostering interfaith coexistence, including EcoPeace Middle East, the Woolf Institute, and the Van Leer Jerusalem Institute. His PhD explores the lived experiences of rural Yemeni Jews—an under-researched community shaped by tribality, dispersion, and layered identities. Drawing on an endangered archive of over 1,200 oral testimonies, the project aims to reconstruct hyperlocal Jewish-Muslim relations in Yemen and deepen our understanding of intergroup cohesion in decentralised settings. Noam is also a classical tenor and a member of Christ’s College Chapel Choir.

Previous Education

Sciences PO, Institut d'etudes politiques de Paris Bachelor of Arts
University of Cambridge Middle Eastern Studies