She graduate in 2000 from Akhawayn University with a Bachelor of Arts (B.A.) in Social Sciences. Meryem worked at both TelQuel, a weekly French news magazine and Nishan, the Arabic version of TelQuel. In 2012, she worked with her father Driss Alaoui M’daghri to help organize the first ‘Come to my Home’ festival that took place Casablanca in October 2012 over a ten-day period before making its way up to Marrakech, Bejaad, Lucca, Boskoura, and finally Rome[3] 'Come to my Home’ is a dialogue between musicians, artists, poets and free thinkers from different faiths and backgrounds.