Lamiae Zeriouh is Moroccan Amazigh. She is currently a first-year Ph.D researcher in Digital Anthropology at the University of Sidi Mohamed Ben Abdellah, Faculty of Arts and Humanities, Dhar Almehraz, Fes, Morocco. She received a Master’s degree in Language, Communication & Society. Lamiae is an alumna of the Leadership Young Change-Makers Online Program 2023 by Cinfo.ch. During her fellowship at the Digital Narrative Institute, she worked on a digital narrative project exhibited from November 2024 to February 2025 in the Zone of Experimental Storytelling in collaboration with Washington State University-Vancouver, The NEXT, and the Electronic Literature Lab. Besides, she received an honorable mention in the 2024 Peter Drucker Essay Challenge. Lamiae has a profound passion for writing both prose and poetry, with a published short story in MonoNoAware Anthology, an Essay in the Culture and Identity Conference’s proceedings issue, an Eco-narrative in the international outlet Panorama: The Journal of Travel, Place, and Nature, and a Creative non-fiction paper published in the Anthology of Festive African Writing Vol.3 by BrittlePaper.

Tarifit, also known as Riffian and Tmaziɣt, is a Zenati Berber language spoken by 1.2 million people in northern Morocco, particularly in the Rif region. Despite its widespread use, Tarifit remains largely oral and lacks significant written and digital representation, putting its linguistic and cultural heritage at risk.

Lamiae’s project seeks to preserve and document 20 traditional Rifian Amazigh folktales by working with local elders and storytellers. Each story will be recorded in Tmaziɣt with high-quality audio to capture its natural rhythm and expression. The recordings will then be transcribed, creating a written record of these folktales for the first time. To ensure broader accessibility and cultural exchange, the stories will also be translated into Arabic, English, and French.