This paper focuses on the life cycles of two alternative media (Lakome and Mamfakinch) and how they interacted with the political and economic powers. Both media were born as side phenomena related to the so-called “Arab Spring,” whi..
Fadma Aït Mous and Driss Ksikes
Fadma Ait Mous is currently Assistant Professor at Ain Chock Faculty of Letters and the Humanities (University Hassan II of Casablanca) and Researcher coordinator at the Moroccan Center of Social Sciences (CM2S) at the same university. She holds a PhD in political science from Hassan II University in Casablanca where she wrote her thesis on the emergence of Moroccan nationalism from local to national networks. Her research is mainly focused on issues related to nationalism and social movements, gender and socio-political transformations, history and memory, youth cultures, social media and migration. Her recent publications include “Transformation, Reformation or Decline? The University in Contemporary Morocco and Turkey” (with H. Ergul, S. Cosar, in Universities in the Neoliberal Era Academic Cultures and Critical Perspectives (dir. S. Cosar and H. Ergul), Palgrave Critical University Studies, 2017); "Femmes, droit à la terre et lutte pour l’égalité au Maroc : le mouvement des soulaliyates" (with Yasmine Berriane, in Contester le droit. Communautés, familles et héritages au Maroc, Editions La Croisée des Chemins, 2016).
Driss Ksikes is professor of media and culture, director of Economia, HEM research center in Rabat, and the editor in chief of its journal as well as the book collection, Les Presses de l’Université Citoyenne. Literary critic and essayist, he was awarded Grand Atlas prize in 2015 for his book, Le métier d’intellectuel, co-authored with Fadma Aït Mous. In the fields of drama and fiction, he has been called “one of the most innovative writers in Morocco today” and was named “one of the six best African playwrights” by the National Studio Theatre in London. He is the author of numerous plays (IL/Houwa, 180 degrés, The Match, Don’t hurry up in burrying Big Brother) and novels (Ma boîte noire, L’homme descend du silence, Au Détroit d’Averroes).