Aboubakr Jamai is the son of Khalid Jamaï, was a well-known journalist who often clashed with King Hassan II[1] and was imprisoned and tortured in 1973.[2] His mother, Badia Berraoui, is a French Linguistic who worked at the ISESCO, Islamic World Educational Scientific and Cultural Organization and was chief of staff of Abdelhadi Boutaleb, King's Hassan II advisor. He is also the grand son of Abouchitaa Jamai, a Moroccan resistant, a founder of the Istiqlal (Independence) party and signatory of Morocco's Independence Manifesto.