I am a Muslim Arab Moroccan Woman, born in the capital Rabat on the 16th of August 1982. I studied In « Albanat » school, and then went to Ifrane, a very beautiful cold city in the Atlas, where I spent 6 years of primary and high school in « 2éme lycée militaire des filles », a high school for daughters of military officers, until I got my high school diploma in 2000, in experimental sciences. And then, I came back to Rabat and joined English literature classes in the School of letters, I wanted to develop my English skills that I started acquiring during my high shool studies. As an adolescent I was very influenced by the pop culture and so driven into the fancy side of fame and pop stars life style beside my huge love for music and dancing, therefore, when I chose English literature as my university field of studies, my goal was to travel to USA and be a « Pop Star » or « Actor » in Hollywood.

After six years discovering the true Moroccan society, being enclosed in Ifrane my whole period as a teenager, and getting shocked by the harshness of reality and how hard a person should work to make a small dream come true in Morocco, beside the contradictions between my dreams and my identity, that I was introduced to when I started getting in touch with my religion as an adult, I gave up my old dreams, or in other words, created new ones adapted with who I am and what I should be in order to stay in peace with myself ; I earned my B.A degree in English literature and culture from Mohammed V University in 2006, and then applied for the job of cabin crew with Emirates Airlines, was accepted, and moved to Dubai for six months. 

As a culture and communication graduated student, I started aiming at working as a journalist or article writer for I was excellent in analysis and criticism, especially in the culture and drama classes. While traveling with the airline to different destinations and experiencing my identity through different cultures, I discovered my skills and attention and great concern for the Moroccan society, and felt the willing to participate in detecting its flaws, and to contribute with my own perspectives to introduce my culture and identity to others. So, I came back to Morocco, living money behind, but trying to find a way to my dream and enjoy the feeling of belonging that my country offers me for free.

Being the Moroccan young woman I am, I started feeling the need to highlight this precious part of me for that is the identity I never want to lose, the identity I am proud of, the identity for which I left Dubai, a career, money, and a bright future as it seems to others.

However, as many other young men and women from my generation, victims of post colonialism and poor familial and school education, I am still fighting temptations to keep this precious identity safe from grieves of liberal minds, of colonization, globalization, and all what is trying to violate and destroy my religion and traditions, all who is trying to steal our souls and lands, from Fashion shows to new clothes, from Pop music to Rock’n’Roll bands, from gossip news to stars’ dirt, that made our minds became so small, stupid, and unable to separate the right from the wrong.
But the temptations are so strong, and my resistance is so weak. Hollywood lights are seductive and so beautiful that I am incapable of looking away. And here I am living in my contradictory world, praying and singing, confessing and dancing, and trying so hard to define my identity and save it from myself and from the world!