 Her father, Hammadi Bouayach, was a lawyer, a political activist, a thinker and a Law professor at the University of Rabat, of which he became dean.He was one of the very few selected to be part of a mission to study abroad in Cairo and Paris by Mekki Nassiri.Her grandfather was considered Abdelkrim el-Khattabi's right hand and most loyal general during the Rif War.