My Story

During my childhood in Morocco, I often had to move places and leave my school, friends, and sometimes family because of my dad's job. That allowed me to discover many cities in Morocco, and also learn how to build strong relationships with different people in a short period of time. It made me more social and adaptable, and more concerned about the development of my country. Then, after graduating from high school, I moved from Morocco to Paris to study International Business at EBS Paris. Moving far away from my country, family and friends was a hard experience but that taught me a lot, I have developed a better understanding of the world. I now want to continue to move and discover new places and cultures. I am planning to spend my next 6 months in Morocco to develop some projects with an associate and friend from Oujda (Morocco) in the social and solidarity economy with the cooperatives of Morocco. In January 2020 I plan to do a six months exchange in Shanghai University (China) to know more about new technology and infrastructure, and to discover their culture by meeting people, studying there, visiting historical places, and eating a lot of local food as I enjoy doing. Above is a picture of EBS during winter, where you could see Paris during the snowy winter, which is something pretty magical for me, considering that I lived in sunny places all of my childhood life.

Internship at Volvo
Casablanca, Morocco

I had the opportunity to do an internship within Volvo in Morocco. I joined the sales department for three months in order to develop my sales skills and broaden my knowledge of the moroccan business market. It was also a first step in the work environment, I immediately discovered that there are plenty of « corporate rules » to respect in companies, including hierarchy among other things. I also learned to organze my time well in order to be efficient and achieve my goals. Furthermore, I managed to expand my network by working with the employees, suppliers and customers. Here is a picture with the President of Volvo Morocco and the general Director, Wahid El Kadiri and Mehdi Bouhafs.

Family

Family is for me the most important thing present in my life, nothing is more loyal and a source of love than this. Here is a picture with my parents and siblings during a special occasion (the birth of my nephew) in Morocco. We all love travelling, mostly together, in sunny and atypical places. Being surrounded by love is the only way to success.

Peter Norving Conference

Meeting and presentation by Peter Norving (Director of research at Google Inc) in a Google office for the alumnis and Google employees, about the DATA, AI and machine learning. Peter has managed to make technical subjects easy to understand for a young audience and therefore allowed us to learn a lot from this conference. In addition to this, the event was an occasion to meet new people and learn from their own experiences. Among others, I met a moroccan who started from scratch here in USA at 25 yo, and who actually work at Google and plan to start his own company in the near future. This is the type of events we don’t have the opportunity to experience in Paris and that inspired me a lot and gave me even more maturity to undertake in technology. People I meet here in San Francisco always want to share their ideas and knowledge and that’s what makes this place so special for me.

Project (DYALNA wich mean OURS in arabic)

My dad is now living in Oujda, a city located in the « Oriental region » of Morocco. By spending time there, I had the chance to meet an amazing person, Zakaria Fikri, with whom I share the hunger of undertaking in the service of the development of my country. By brainstorming, we discovered that there is a real need for Moroccan cooperatives developing their decreasing sales. We therefore tought of offering a digitalization service for cooperatives, as well as reviewing all packagings to make the products more attractive to consumers, giving them the chance to present at local and international events in the futur. We have now developed a website (linked below) to market theirs products alongside developing their graphic designs, commercial posters, and business cards for their partners and customers. We have also created a cooperative show the March 8, International Women's Day, for our partner cooperatives whom target is the feminine market (youtube video of the first edition linked below).
PS : If someone reading this is an importer, we are looking for some of our partner cooperatives producing rare and quality products (prickly pear oil, saffron, artisanal products ...) opportunities to export to the international market. Feel free to contact me for collaborations.

Dyalna website>

First edition video>