Faced with a severe economic crisis and simmering social unrest in the early 1980s, Morocco embarked on a comprehensive IMF-designed programme of socioeconomic structural adjustment. Over the next decades, neoliberal market reforms ushered in new forms of spatial development and social relations in Moroccan cities. In the cultural field, a popular cinema was born i...

Moroccan filmmakers have chronicled social change and youth's quest for postcolonial agency since the early 1990s. This article examines the representation of Moroccan youth on screen through a close analysis of two recent films on the alternative cultural scene in Casablanca at the turn of the twenty-first century. I will explore how Farida Benlyazid and Abderrahi...