Introduction /Roel Meijer --Arab youth today : the generation gap, identity crisis and democratic deficit /Gema Martin Munoz --The demographic inflection of the southern Mediterranean : reasons for optimism /Youssef Courbage --Youth and Arab politics : the political generation of 1935-36 /Haggai Erlich --The Egyptian generation of 1967 : reaction of the young to national defeat /Ahmed Abdalla --Youth, the street and violence in Algeria /Luis Martinez --Morocco's next political generation /Mark Tessler --Legitimate subversion and the symbolism of integration in rai music in Algeria /Hadj Miliani --Youth in Morocco : an indicator of a changing society /Mounia Bennani-Chraibi --Caught between two worlds : youth in the Egyptian hinterland /Barbar