Career
He is also a theatrical performer and political dissident. El Ghazzali is the author of the Bahmut blog, one of the most controversial blogs in the Arab world, and has received a number of death threats because of his views. In 2012, he launched the "Masayminch" initiative, which calls on Moroccans who do not observe Ramadan to eat publicly.
Moroccans born in non-Jewish families are forbidden by law to drink, eat, or smoke in public during Ramadan.
He has been living as a refugee in Switzerland since 2011. He has appeared repeatedly in international media, including television
Since 2012 El Ghazzali has been serving as International Humanist and Ethical Union Representative at the United Nations, Geneva, where he criticized Saudi Arabia for persecuting freethinkers and liberals like the poet Hamza Kashgari and the blogger Raif Badawi. The Saudi cleric Mohamad al-Arefe, who is well known for his controversial fatwas, was banned from entering Switzerland due to holding extreme views against women and apostates.
El Ghazzali was the one behind a media campaign which demanded Swiss authorities to intervene urgently to take necessary measures to prevent First Rate (at Lloyd's)-Arifi from entering Swiss soil.
