Ahmed Assid

Moroccan writer

Ahmad Assid
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Ahmed Aassid in an interview with Magharebia (April 2006)
Born	(1961-07-14) July 14, 1961 (age 63) Taroudant, Morocco

Ahmed Assid (Berber languages: ⴰⵃⵎⴰⴷ ⵄⴰⵚⵉⴷ; born July 14, 1961) is a Moroccan Berber activist, a professor of philosophy, a poet, and a political activist, well known for being an active secularist.^[1]^[2]

Assid is a secularist, and is well known for his criticism of Muslim fundamentalists and Arabization. In 2013, Assid received death threats several times, and three years later he was on the black list of ISIS and their main target among Moroccan figures.^[3]

In 1980, he continued his higher education in Rabat in the Department of Philosophy and Sociology. He graduated from the Faculty of Education Sciences as a Professor of Philosophy in 1988.

References

^ "Ahmed Assid, un militante de los ‘hombres libres’ del Magreb", El Pais, May 9, 2013
^ Zahiri, Ahmed. "Ahmed Assid…a Free Thinker in a Country Controlled by Dogmatic Ideology", Amazigh World News, February 21, 2016.
^ "The threat of the Islamic state in Morocco" (in French). Archived from the original on November 8, 2020. Retrieved November 8, 2020.