I am a third-year graduate student in the Physics Department at The University of Texas in Austin.  I received a BS degree in Physics and Mathematics from Mary Washington College in May 2002.  
     I am originally from Guercif, a small village in Eastern Morocco.  Guercif lies halfway between the historic city of Fez and the easternmost city of Oujda. 
     My academic interests lie in fundamental theoretical physics, i.e. the physics of the fundamental constituents of matter and their interactions.  Currently I am studying compactification of M-theory on singular spaces of G_2 holonomy.