Hanae played a pivotal role in influencing the decision to move the annual gathering of the House of Beautiful Business (HoBB) from Portugal to Morocco after seven successful editions. In May 2024, Hanae co-curated and co-hosted “Between the Two of Us”, a groundbreaking business festival in Tangier, Morocco, which focused on fostering a life-centered economy built on sustainability, regeneration, equality, and justice. The event attracted 700 participants, 85 speakers, and 50 volunteers from around the world.
Hanae actively supported the development of institutional relationships with local authorities and established strategic partnerships with leading organizations, including Engie, the Dubai Future Foundation, and the Joseph Rowntree Foundation. She also managed press relationships, securing extensive national and regional media coverage, further enhancing the festival’s global impact.
Hanae led the project management of Tracing the Wild, a €50k eco-data art initiative that told the stories of predators in the Maasai Mara, collaborating with creative director Seth Bockley and the Sovereign Nature Initiative (SNI). SNI is a pioneering non-profit focused on using Web 3 technology to redefine the value of nature for a sustainable future. Hanae’s role included financial management, ecosystem growth, and developing a comprehensive sustainability strategy for the organization, streamlining financial flows from Web 3 entities to conservation partners. Hanae also spearheaded fundraising efforts, including a €25k campaign with Engie North Africa and Aquasearch, supporting a groundbreaking marine wildlife conservation study in Dakhla Bay, Morocco.
In addition to her involvement in the African startup ecosystem as an entrepreneur and policy advisor, Hanae founded Douar Tech in 2017 — a then-pioneering social technology initiative focused on strengthening the resilience and economic inclusion of vulnerable youth, particularly women from marginalized rural and peri-urban communities. Through an inclusive tech hub model, Douar Tech identified young people with entrepreneurial potential within underserved regions, equipping them with digital skills, mentorship, and exposure to accomplished professionals and ecosystem actors.
By the end of her tenure in 2022, Douar Tech had directly supported more than 500 participants and indirectly impacted over 1,000 beneficiaries through strong Training of Trainers (ToT) mechanisms that enabled participants to transfer knowledge within their own communities.
Under Hanae’s leadership, Douar Tech evolved from a grassroots, volunteer-led initiative into a sustainable organization operating with a yearly budget of approximately $420,000 USD, a team of nine staff members, and a Board of Directors composed of experienced professionals. The organization became a recognized example of community-driven innovation, inclusive entrepreneurship, and locally grounded ecosystem development.
Hanae has experienced firsthand the realities of entrepreneurship as a diaspora returnee operating in a founding role within the technology and education sector. After several years advising large European corporations on digital transformation initiatives from Paris, she joined the global coding bootcamp Le Wagon as a franchise partner, country launcher, and managing director for Morocco, leading the establishment of the organization’s first African hub in Casablanca.
She oversaw the full launch and operational development of the campus — from business setup, strategic positioning, and partnership development to community building, talent recruitment, and market activation. Under her leadership, the Casablanca campus delivered four multidisciplinary cohorts training more than 50 high-potential African talents, diaspora members, and international digital professionals, leading to the development of 10 web-based products and startups.
Hanae recruited and managed a multidisciplinary team of 15 staff members, including instructors, operations personnel, and community managers, while building a dynamic ecosystem of more than 1,000 participants through weekly events, ecosystem programming, and cross-sector engagement initiatives. She also developed B2B training partnerships with leading Moroccan and international organizations, including OCP Group and Roland Berger, contributing to broader conversations around digital transformation, workforce development, and innovation ecosystems across the region. In 2018, she additionally led the organization of Le Wagon’s international staff retreat in Essaouira, bringing together 80 participants from across the global network.
Beezine is a powerful bilingual poetry zine that features a collection of poems in both English and Arabic. This anthology is divided into three evocative sections, each offering a unique exploration of identity, culture, and the human experience across borders.
The first section, Nomadic Eyes, includes poems such as Cooper’s Garage, Dos Bandeirantes, Four O’clock Flower, Limbo, Paradise 36, Zanzi Lust, Oyé, and Azorean, the Passenger Edition. These works delve into the transient nature of existence, capturing the essence of migration and the multifaceted experiences of the diaspora.
Mothers of the Land, the second section, pays homage to feminine strength, heritage, and connection to the earth with poems like My Mothers, The Thing with Hair, Queendom Under an Oak Tree, Prayers from Kigali, Cotton Talk, The Alien Blues, and Favorite Colors. This section reflects on the interwoven stories of women and the lands they nurture.
The final section, Between All of Us, offers introspective reflections on shared humanity and interconnectedness. Poems such as The Framing Acts, I Need Beauty, Backgammon Stories, If This Palace Was All Mine, At the Home, and Between the Two of Us examine the ties that unite us across time, place, and experience.
This Beezine is an intimate, cross-cultural anthology of select poems exploring themes of displacement, belonging, and the universal quest for identity, making it a compelling addition to contemporary poetry collections.
Inspired by Salvador Dali’s Pamphlet ‘Declaration of the independence of imagination and the rights of man to his own madness’, the declaration of independence of the Maghrebian woman is a multilingual collaborative art piece with purpose. It’s a contribution to activating change in a region of the World where women and minority groups suffer vast injustices and daily indignities. The Declaration itself is a performative act of liberation. It’s also a creative and hybrid journey that starts with a mixtape shared online morphing into an art installation using lights and drones … and other forms yet to be explored!
« Le projet que vous tenez dans vos mains est le fruit d’une expérimentation très singulière, de l’index d’une vie sur Terre à l’ère de la renaissance 4.0. Ceci n’est pas un travail d’érudition. C’est plutôt la chronique d’un tumulte osé et assumé, d’un chaos nécessaire d’idées, de sensations, d’émotions, d’un ordre vécu comme nouveau par les jeunes générations. Cette exploration linguistique invite l’auteur et son lecteur à redéfinir leurs repères, à explorer la territorialité de leurs langages, des mots dont ils usent pour se mouvoir dans leur réalité.
Les repères, ce sont les mots ! Dans les errances réelles ou imaginaires, les valises les plus légères et les compagnons les plus loyaux sont les mots. Ils lient, unissent, au détour d’une conversation, orale ou digitale ; ils éclairent, au coin d’un émerveillement spontané ou d’un éclat de lucidité ; ils rassurent et consolent, dans les méandres du voyage ; ils cristallisent les furtives pensées. Qu’ils manquent ou qu’ils soient de trop, qu’ils soient justes ou dissonants, qu’ils soient résonnants ou à contre-courant d’une époque qui porte aux nues la nouveauté, comme si elle était la promesse d’une innovation salvatrice, ils constituent un répertoire précieux d’une musicalité et d’une sensibilité toutes humaines.
Cette démarche collective est initiée par des individus ouverts à toutes les curiosités — venus d’ici et d’ailleurs — qui s’attachent à observer minutieusement l’évolution sémantique de leur génération, à désambiguïser ses termes courants et leurs ramifications complexes, à mettre en lumière les actes sous-jacents au langage.
Il n’y a pas de place dans cet abécédaire pour de quelconques caprices de langage, pour des approximations grandiloquentes, pour l’acceptation de l’inconnaissable, de l’inintelligible ou de l’indéfinissable. À l’origine de cet abécédaire, il y a une quête de sens, de minutie et d’harmonie. Il y a une volonté d’entrer en contact avec l’intégralité de l’esprit de cette génération, ses faiblesses et ses grandeurs, ses croyances, ses idées fixes et ses limitations.
Cette démarche engage aussi intimement le lecteur afin qu’il entame son propre voyage rhétorique et qu’il saisisse, en chemin, son être-au-monde-et-au-langage. Cet abécédaire, à travers ses narrations illustrées, est une collection des variantes incarnées de la modernité et de ses représentations. »
