From the mountains of Tinghir to the corridors of international NGOs, Mohamed Ahammam, 54, has forged a path that nothing seemed to predestine. Between Morocco, Africa and the United States, this development expert, now based in Washington, DC, has never broken with his Berber roots. And yet, behind an international career emerges the portrait of a Moroccan on the move, deeply attached to his native village and to passing on his identity.