I’m a British-Moroccan writer and director. I live in Dover, on the Kent coast.

I’m drawn to stories shaped by silence, memory and inheritance, and to people facing choices that have no clean answer.

My first film, Beneath a Mother’s Feet, reconstructs the thirty-six hours before a young mother in Morocco walks away from her life. It began with my own mother’s story. It spent nearly two years at festivals and won more than forty awards.

My essays have appeared in the New Statesman. No Regrets, a monologue, was performed for Margins to Mainstream with Michael Sheen and featured on BBC Sounds.

I’m now writing The Ogress of Fez, a feature set in a brothel in 1930s colonial Morocco.