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Najib Bounahaj, professor at the EGE Rabat, talked about performance and politics when he introduced the Panel Discussion on "Performance, Politics, Space in Youth Subcultures", which took place on Wednesday September 3, 2014 at the EGE Rabat.[caption id="attachment_501" align="alignleft" width="206"] Photo by Georges Khalil under CC BY-NC-SA 4.0[/caption]Performance is no longer an accessoiry of power in Morocco and the Arab world. Bounahaj relates that one cannot understand the history of the contemporary Arab World without considering the development of cinema, music and the arts that produce new politics. The revolution in Tunisia (and consequently in the whole Arab World) for example was started by an act of political performativity, the self-immolation of Mohamed Bouazizi in December 2010.[caption id="attachment_502" align="alignright" width="300"] Photo by Georges Khalil under CC BY-NC-SA 4.0[/caption]It seemed the Arab World was headed towards a greek tragedy, a performance with a quick end, however it is stuck in 1001 nights and currently in a liminal space.