Ahmed Assid

 ( 1961 Births ) 

Ahmed Assid (; born July 14, 1961) is a Morocco Berber activist, a professor of philosophy, a poet, and a political activist, well known for being an active secularist." Ahmed Assid, un militante de los ‘hombres libres’ del Magreb", El Pais, May 9, 2013Zahiri, Ahmed. " Ahmed Assid…a Free Thinker in a Country Controlled by Dogmatic Ideology", Amazigh World News, February 21, 2016.

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.

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.

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Sexual misconduct allegations In December 2014, Berber activist and writer Malika Mezzane claimed that Ahmed Assid had been harassing her for years. She subsequently revealed a customary "marriage contract" written and signed by Assid, and stated, “He destroyed my house and my life because of the alleged passion he had for me … and was one of the reasons behind my divorce.” After coming under pressure and receiving threats for having denounced Assid, she made public a video of him in her house, as well as a number of photos of them together. Assid refused to answer the allegations and stated that he “did not want to discuss individuals' personal life on media.”

Categories: 1961 Births, Living People, Berber Activists, Berber Poets, Critics Of Islam, Critics Of Islamism, Moroccan Activists, Moroccan Critics Of Religions, People From Taroudannt, Shilha People

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