Side projects · 2010 onward
Forums, videos, translations and bots, mostly about Morocco: its poets, its proverbs and its pictures.
Ongoing
Design & Art
Ever since I got my hands on my first computer (an HP Compaq Pentium 4), I have tried to make collages and designs. I grew up feeling like I could never draw anything. Computers helped me become the artist (a terrible one, but still) I thought I would never be.
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2010
Web Development
In 2010, I created an online forum for my local middle school. Both the administration staff and the students liked it. While it was active, students wrote more than 500 posts on it. It is still online, although nobody posts there anymore.
Visit the forum2017
Video Production
A video I made in 2017 to present my school, the École Normale Supérieure in Rabat.
Watch the video2018
Educational Content
Moroccan Poets is a series of video essays on YouTube where I revisit Moroccan Malhun poets in a fun, educational way.
Watch the series2018
Translation
In 2018, I translated my favourite Blake poem into Moroccan Darija.
Read the translation2019
Educational Content
A video series I made for EasyGlish, an online education organisation. Each episode presents a famous English writer in Moroccan Darija.
Watch the series2020
Poetry
A recitation of the poem written across the top of Bab Mansour, the great gate of Meknes.
Watch the recitation2021
Bot Development
A Twitter bot that automatically shares old, traditional Moroccan proverbs.
See the bot on Twitter2022
Social Media
An Instagram account that brings Moroccan oral traditions to life, one proverb at a time. It has passed 35K followers.
Visit on InstagramUndated
Bot Development
Archimor (Archive Morocco) is a Telegram bot that archives Moroccan images found online. It crawls Twitter and saves every Moroccan image it finds. Its Telegram channel holds more than 8,000 images.
Open the Telegram channel