At the 2012 Summer Olympics, he competed in the Men's 5000 metres, finishing 31st overall in Round 1, failing to qualify for the final.

[1] He won his first international medal at the 2010 World Junior Championships in Athletics, taking third place in the 5000 metres.

He placed 13th at the senior race for the 2011 African Cross Country Championships, which was enough for a team bronze medal.

He set a 5000 m best of 13:13.68 minutes that June, but was caught doping shortly afterwards, receiving a six-month ban for methylhexanamine.

[2] He won the Roma-Ostia Half Marathon in 2014 with a significant personal best of 59:25 minutes – a Moroccan record and the fastest by a non-East African runner.