A graduate of the Raymond Tibault Institute of Optics in Brussels in 1981, Amal Lazrak-Kabbaj is the first female optician-optometrist in Morocco. She opened her first Tensift Optique store in 1983 in the small port town of Safi on the Moroccan Atlantic coast. His avant-gardism, his rigor and his professionalism made him acquire a first young clientele.