Ahmed Assid Explained

Ahmad Assid
Native Name:	ⴰⵃⵎⴰⴷ ⵄⴰⵚⵉⴷ
Native Name Lang:	ber
Birth Date:	14 July 1961
Birth Place:	Taroudant, Morocco

Ahmed Assid (; 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.

Notes and 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.
3. Web site: The threat of the Islamic state in Morocco. French. November 8, 2020. November 8, 2020. https://web.archive.org/web/20201108125513/https://www.courrierinternational.com/article/enquete-au-maroc-la-menace-de-letat-islamique. dead.