Our Experience

Margaux Dinerman’s love of travel began early. At the age of six, her mother—a cultural anthropologist—took Margaux and her brother to live in Pátzcuaro, Mexico for six months. Immersed in daily life there, Margaux learned to speak Spanish and discovered the profound joy of experiencing a culture from the inside. The family returned again when she was thirteen, and those formative experiences awakened a lifelong curiosity about the people, music, traditions, and stories that give each culture its soul.

That curiosity eventually led Margaux to the arts. While studying dance in the Bay Area, she met local musicians playing Latin jazz, setting her on a path she had never imagined. She later moved to Los Angeles to study Latin percussion while continuing her dance career. In 1988, Margaux traveled to Havana, Cuba, where she fell deeply in love with Afro-Cuban music, dance, and spirituality. What began as a visit soon became a way of life.

Over the next twelve years, Cuba became Margaux’s second home. She lived and studied there extensively, training with the Conjunto Folklórico Nacional de Cuba and immersing herself in Afro-Cuban religious traditions and artistic communities. Through music, movement, and ritual, she experienced firsthand how embodied cultural traditions carry history, memory, and healing across generations.

Margaux’s academic work grew directly from these lived experiences. She earned a B.A. in Dance from Mills College and later completed an M.A. in Dance Ethnology at UCLA, where she conducted original fieldwork in Cuba exploring Afro-Cuban ritual traditions and their roots in West African spiritual practices.

Travel and cultural exchange have remained guiding threads throughout Margaux’s life. In 2025, she traveled to Morocco for the first time and experienced a powerful moment of recognition while listening to Gnawa musicians perform. The deep rhythmic and spiritual parallels between Gnawa traditions and the Afro-Cuban music that had shaped her earlier life were unmistakable.

That moment became the inspiration for Worlds Converge.

Through immersive cultural journeys and conversations that build bridges of understanding across communities, Margaux brings together the passions that have guided her life—travel, music, culture, and dialogue. Her hope is to create spaces where curiosity leads to connection, and where encounters across cultures reveal how deeply our shared humanity runs.

Fatima Habte is not simply a tour guide, she is a cultural interpreter, storyteller, and lifelong guardian of Moroccan heritage.

Born and raised in the Rif Mountains of northern Morocco, in the historic blue city of Chefchaouen, Fatima grew up surrounded by layers of memory: Andalusian houses, Jewish and Muslim neighborhoods, mountain villages, and traditions passed quietly from one generation to the next. From an early age, she learned that places are not merely visited — they are lived, remembered, and protected.

With more than seventeen years of professional experience guiding travelers from around the world, Fatima has worked with leading international tour operators from the United States and Europe, accompanying hundreds of travelers across Morocco. Yet her work has always extended far beyond logistics or sightseeing. Her specialty lies in helping visitors understand Morocco from the inside — its history, its people, its faiths, its contradictions, and its deep humanity.

Fatima holds two specialized master’s degrees: one in Responsible Tourism and Human Development, and another in Moroccan Jewish Heritage and Cultural Circuits. She has lectured for international groups on Moroccan society, women’s lives, interfaith history, and cultural identity, and has been deeply involved in rural tourism development projects in the Rif region. These experiences give her a rare ability to connect academic knowledge with lived reality.

What makes Fatima’s journeys distinctive is her approach. She believes that meaningful travel happens not through rushed schedules, but through relationships — sitting with local families, speaking with artisans, walking slowly through old neighborhoods, and listening to stories that do not appear in guidebooks. Whether guiding through imperial cities, Jewish quarters, mountain villages, or desert landscapes, she invites her guests to encounter Morocco not as a postcard, but as a living, breathing culture.

In addition to her guiding work, Fatima is the founder and manager of a mountain eco-lodge in Talassemtane National Park near Chefchaouen, where she has spent years developing community-based tourism and supporting local guides, women’s cooperatives, and traditional crafts. Her long-term vision is to create spaces of hospitality that feel like sanctuaries — places where travelers, cultures, and histories meet with respect.

“The most meaningful bridges are not made of stone or steel, but of curiosity, empathy, and the willingness to see our shared humanity.”