Moroccan actor and filmmaker born on 23 February 1948 in Casablanca. After his secondary studies he left for Lebanon for two years. Returning from the Middle East, he began to do amateur theater and translated plays by Bertolt Brecht, an author whom he introduced to the Moroccan public with the collaboration of the Goethe Institute in Casablanca. He left for France where he decided to pursue studies in sociology, then economics. Two years later, he definitively changed direction and opted for the theatrical and cinematographic studies depar…