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Jacob Cohen is a Franco-Moroccan Jewish writer, and former professor at the Faculty of Law of Casablanca.

Biography
Born in the New Mellah of Meknes, Jacob Cohen attended the Talmud Torah Primary School and the Israelite Alliance School there, the Marshan Yeshiva High School in Tangier, where he spent two years, and then finished high school at Moulay Ismaïl of Meknes where he obtained his baccalaureate.

Jacob Cohen obtained a law degree from the University of Casablanca, then entered Science-Po in Paris where he graduated with a degree in political science and a PhD in public law. He then moved to Montreal and then to Berlin. In 1978, he returned to Morocco and became assistant professor at the Faculty of Law of Casablanca until 1987. He then moved back to Paris where he devoted himself to writing.