Kacem El Ghazzali, Date of Birth, Place of Birth

Kacem El Ghazzali

Blogger, Writer

Date of Birth: 24-Jun-1990

Place of Birth: Sidi Kacem, Rabat-Salé-Kénitra, Morocco

Profession: writer, journalist

Nationality: Switzerland, Morocco

Zodiac Sign: Cancer

Kacem El Ghazzali (Berber languages: ???? ???????, Arabic: ???? ????????), (born 24 June 1990), is a secularist writer and activist and is one of the few Moroccans to publicly announce to be an atheist.
Kacem speaks English, as well as German, French, Arabic and Berber.
Mostly known for his publicly voiced atheism, his writings stress the importance of freedom of thought which, in his view is lacking in countries dominated by Islam.
His articles have been published in/by the Richard Dawkins Foundation, Huffington Post, Le Monde, Neue Zürcher Zeitung, Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, Basler Zeitung and others. In 2017 El Ghazzali was granted Swiss citizenship, and was chosen as one of the 14 most influential Swiss intellectuals of the year by the Basler Zeitung. El Ghazzali was also named Swiss of the Year 2018 by the Sunday newspaper SonntagsZeirung among 30 other personalities.