Amal El Alami (Arabic: أمل العلمي, romanized: Amal al-ʻIlmī; born 9 July 1950) is a Moroccan physician, neurosurgeon and writer.
[1] He was born at Casablanca, the quartier Habous, in a nationalist family linked to the Istiqlal Party.
Amal el Alami comes from a famous family of Fez, Al Alami branch Idrisids.
He is the son of poet, linguist and nationalist Idriss ibn al-Hassan al-Alami (1925–2007).
He is the descendant of the doctor and astronomer Abdeslam ben Mohammed al-Alami [ar] (1830–1904).