Irene Gonzalez is a researcher with the Grupo de Estudios sobre Sociedades Arabes y Musulmanas at the University of Castilla-la Mancha (Spain) and associate researcher with the Institut de Recherches et d'Etudes sur le Monde Arabe et Musulman in Aix-en-Provence (France). Her published work covers education and cultural policy in Spanish Morocco and Spanish cultural policy towards the Arab Word.