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Born and raised in Saint Paul, MN, Peter moved to Boston in 2005 to study History, French, and Philosophy at Northeastern University. After his graduation in 2009, he published his first book 'Letters to Laura' and worked as a visual artist in the Boston area for a short period of time. In 2010 he moved to Metz, France, where he spent two years as an English Language Assistant at the historic Lycée Fabert. Around this time, He began traveling to Morocco, which he would continue to do each summer for the next 6 years, as the assistant to Northeastern University's Dialogue of Civilizations program. In 2012, he moved to Strasbourg, France, where he completed a Master's degree in Comparitive Literature. The title of his Master's thesis was Confluences des voyages et des œuvres : Chateaubriand et Lord Byron. Following this, he worked as an English Language Lecturer at the University of Strasbourg for two years. In 2013, he published his second book, a poetry anthology titled 'The Meter of Meaning'. In 2015, he passed the Goethe Institute's C1 test in German. In late 2015, he won a Fulbright ETA award to teach English at the Sidi Mohamed Ben Abdulah University in Fez. In 2016, Peter won an AEIF award from the US State Department to found the ETII in Fez, which has led him to his current job managing the National ETII.

Ouiam Mallouk is 27 years old. She was born and raised in Fez. Ouiam obtained her BA in Cultural Studies from Sidi Mohammed Benabdellah University, Fez. Then, she got her Master's of Arts in International Studies and Diplomacy from Al Akhawayn University, Ifrane. She occupied the position of a Bookshop assistant for more than a year at the American Language center in Fez. She is an Alumna of the ETII Fez/ 2016. She is currently the local coordinator of the English Teaching Internship Initiave Fez and the president of ALC-ALIF Model UN Club. Ouiam is passionate about learning new skills, women leadership, and volunteer work.

Safaa El Youssfi is originally from Fez. Born on Nov 23rd, 1976, she studied at Oum Al Banin High school, where she got her high school diploma. Then she received her bachelor's degree in Applied Linguistics from Sidi Mohamed Ibn Abdillah University in Fes, and a master’s Degree in Culture and Development Studies from Mohamed V University in Rabat. After graduation, she got a Fulbright scholarship to study at Mount Holyoke College, Massachusetts. She studied Politics there and got a post graduate certificate in it. She is an English teacher at a public high school in Fez and I also teaches at the ALC.

Taoufik El-Ayachi is a professor of Linguistics at the School of Arts and Humanities in Meknes and a teacher of English for General Purposes at the American Language Center in Fes since 1990. He is also a teacher Modern Standard Arabic and Moroccan Arabic to non-native speakers at the Arabic Language Institute in Fes. Before he embarked on tertiary education, he studied English at the School of Arts and Humanities at Sidi Mohammed Ben Abdellah University in Fes and got his BA in 1984, MA in 1992 and a Ph.D. in Linguistics in 2006. He also studied at the Faculty of Educational Sciences in Rabat for one year and got his CAPES, High School Teaching Aptitude Certificate, in 1985. Prof. Taoufik El Ayachi has had a long experience teaching English in several Moroccan public schools. He has also taught English for specific Purpose at ESIG, Computer Sciences and Management Institute, as well as at the Faculty of Medicine in Fes. His interests are Applied Linguistics, Syntax, and Sociolinguistics. He is also interested in Dialectology and Educational Psychology.

Chakib Bouayad is a former high school English teacher and teacher trainer. He studied at the E.N.S. in Rabat after he had graduated from Sidi Med Ben Abdallah University, Fez, with a Bachelor’s degree in the English language and literature. He also holds a diploma in Office Management and Administration from Cambridge University after a two-year distant course. He has taught English in different public and privates schools in Morocco as well as in some Colleges for business, where he taught English for Specific Purposes. He has been teaching at the A.L.C, Fez since 2002.