The latest work directed by Fatema Mernissi (1940-2015) honors her role as an intellectual pioneer and civil society activist, concerned about the future in store for youths within the current environment of social transformation. With contributions by Khadija Alaoui, Abderrahim El Atri, Réda Dalil, Fatna El Bouih, Ahmed Ghayet, Youssef Madad, Hanane El Ouadrhiri and Jallal Toufiq, Reflexiones sobre la violencia de los jóvenes (Reflections on Youth Violence) is a work which analyzes the phenomenon known as “charmil” in Morocco. To be examined from a multidisciplinary focus will be the violence which mainly affects teenagers and young adults in large urban areas, resulting from imbalances created by globalization.

Maria-Àngels Roque is the director of the IEMed’s Mediterranean Cultures department and the journal Quaderns de la Mediterrània. Roque has a PhD in Cultural and Social Anthropology and a bachelor’s degree in Modern History from the University of Barcelona. She has completed prospective and anthropological research projects on the Iberian Peninsula and Western Mediterranean, especially in Morocco. She was the technical director of the first Euromed Civil Forum (1995) and is currently working with Euro-Mediterranean civil society networks. Most notable among her publications are Mujer y migración en el mediterráneo occidental (Women and Migration in the Western Mediterranean, dir. 2001); La sociedad civil en Marruecos (Civil Society in Morocco, 2002); Anthropologie du quotidien en Méditerranée (Anthropology of Everyday Life in the Mediterranean, 2005) and Les amazighs aujourd’hui, la culture Berbère (Amazigh Women Today: Berber culture, dir. 2009).

Mohammed Dahiri is a professor in the Department of Arab and Islamic Studies at the Universidad Complutense de Madrid. He has a PhD in Arab and Islamic Studies from the Universidad Hispalense of Seville and completed doctoral studies in Comparative Literature and Translation at the Université Mohamed V in Rabat. His main lines of research include international migration in the Euro-Mediterranean space, interculturalism and relations between the EU, Maghreb region and Middle East. Amongst his latest publications, he co-edited with Juan Carmelo García, Santiago González, Carlos Lozano and Alejandra Ortega, the work Sociedad Civil y transiciones en el Norte de África: Egipto, Túnez, Argelia, Marruecos (Civil Society and Transitions in North Africa: Egypt, Tunisia, Algeria, Morocco, coord. by Laurence Thieux, Icaria, 2013), and he is the author of “Economic and social remittances from the Moroccan diaspora and their effects in Morocco,” published in Miscelánea de estudios árabes y hebraicos. Arab-Islam Section, 60, 2011.