Ahmed Assid

Ahmad Assid
Ahmed Aassid in an interview with Magharebia (April 2006)
Native name ⵃⵎⴰⴷ ⵄⴰⵚⵉⴺ
Born (1961-07-14) July 14, 1961
Taroudant, Morocco

Ahmed Assid (Berber languages: ⵃⵎⴰⴷ ⵄⴰⵚⵉⴺ) (born July 14, 1961) is a Moroccan Berber activist, philosopher, poet, professor, and 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.

References

  1. ↑ "Ahmed Assid, un militante de los ‘hombres libres’ del Magreb", El Pais, May 9, 2013
  2. ↑ Zahiri, Ahmed. "Ahmed Assid…a Free Thinker in a Country Controlled by Dogmatic Ideology", Amazigh World News, February 21, 2016.


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