The city of art, of light, of culture that never stops moving. A place where you can hear ten languages on one street corner, watch a graffiti artist work next to a Haussmann facade, and end the night at a concert you found out about that same afternoon. No city on earth does this at the same level. I chose Paris because Paris is the best city in the world, and I have spent every year since proving myself right.

Most Parisians see this city as metro, boulot, dodo. Subway, work, sleep. The routine takes over and the magic disappears. I refuse that. I still see Paris the way a first-time visitor sees it, with the eyes wide open, the stars still shining. That moment when someone arrives in this city for the first time and their face changes, that is what I am trying to capture and give back to people who have forgotten it or never had it.

Living in Paris with the curiosity of a tourist and the expertise of a local. That is the only way I know how to do this.

I started Parisian Diaries in 2023 with one idea: document the city that tourists miss. Not the postcard version. The real one. The street art hidden in alleys that no guidebook mentions. The concerts where the crowd knows every word. The neighborhoods that feel like a different country. The strangers who stop and talk to you if you just point a camera and ask.

The video that changed everything was an interview I filmed during the Rugby World Cup in Paris. A fan in the street expressing pure joy at being in this city. That video crossed one million views in under 24 hours. It showed me that people were hungry for an authentic Paris, not a filtered one, and it gave me the energy to keep going.

Since then I have documented street art across Paris and the world, attended hundreds of concerts and festivals, traveled to Brazil, Argentina, Thailand, Tunisia, Colombia, Uruguay, and Qatar, and built an audience of people who want to see the world the way I see it: curious, unfiltered, and always looking for what is just around the corner.

I am open-minded. I believe in the mix of cultures. I grew up on hip-hop and street art. I love what happens when people from different worlds end up in the same room. I speak Arabic, French, English, and Spanish — which means those conversations happen in four languages, and the doors they open are never the same twice.