Early Life and Education
Salma was born in Fes to al-Haj Abdel Hamid Bennani, a school teacher from Fes. Her mother Naima, née Bensouda died when she was three years old; from then on she and her sister were raised by her maternal grandmother. She lived in Rabat, with her cousin Saira, the two are commonly seen together in public.
She was educated in Rabat, where she attended a private school, Lycée Hassan II, Lycée Moulay Youssef, and l'École Nationale Supérieure d'Informatique et d'Analyse de Systèmes. She met her husband during a private party in 1999. After completing her engineering studies, she worked for a few months as an information services engineer at ONA Group, the country's largest private holding company (which is also controlled by the Moroccan Royal Family).
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