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Ahmed Benchemsi was born on 19 May, 1974 in Morocco, is a Moroccan journalist. Discover Ahmed Benchemsi's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is he in this year and how he spends money? Also learn how he earned most of networth at the age of 49 years old?

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Age 49 years old
Zodiac Sign Taurus
Born 19 May, 1974
Birthday 19 May
Birthplace Morocco
Nationality Morocco

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Ahmed Reda Benchemsi (أحمد رضا بنشمسي) is a Moroccan journalist.

He is the founder and was the publisher and editor of TelQuel and Nichane magazines.

Benchemsi attended high school in Casablanca.

1994

He spent his freshman years in Rabat's Mohammed V University, before joining Paris 8 University, from which he received a B.A in finance in 1994.

1995

He later received an M.A in development economics from the Sorbonne in 1995, and an MPhil in political science from Sciences Po in 1998.

1996

He began as a reporter and polemicist in the Moroccan weekly La Vie Éco in 1996.

In 1996, Benchemsi received in Casablanca, at the age of 22, the "investigative story award", granted by Morocco's journalists union.

1999

After briefly serving as communication advisor for a cabinet member, he was editor in chief of Téléplus magazine in 1999.

After the passing of King Hassan II, he was the correspondent in Morocco for Jeune Afrique magazine.

2001

In October 2001, he founded TelQuel, a weekly news magazine of which he became the publisher and editor.

Under the editorial line "Morocco As It Is", TelQuel covers monarchy, politics, business and culture and advocates democracy, secularism and individual freedoms.

Its independent, liberal stand made it since its inception a resolute critic of the Makhzen (autocratic monarchic system) as much as of the Islamists.

Both strongly attacked it in return.

2005

In 2005, TelQuel became the #1 weekly in Morocco.

In 2005, he received in Brussels the Lorenzo Natali Journalism Prize, granted by the European Commission to "journalists who contribute to the cause of democracy".

2006

In 2006, Benchemsi founded Nichane, the Arabic version of TelQuel, defending the same values and editorial line.

In December 2006, after a cover story titled "How Moroccans Joke about Religion, Sex and Politics", Nichane was banned by decision of Prime Minister Driss Jettou.

Whereas Benchemsi and Nichane staffers received death threats as much as support letters from all over the world, the then editor-in-chief and the author of the controversial article were sued by the government for "damaging Islam".

They were condemned to three years suspended prison.

2007

In August 2007, Benchemsi was interrogated over two days in custody about one of his editorials.

100,000 copies of TelQuel and Nichane were seized and destroyed by police forces.

Benchemsi was sued for "disrespecting the King", which in Morocco is worthy of five years in prison.

One year later, the trial was adjourned without verdict.

In 2007, he received in Beirut the Samir Kassir Award for Freedom of the Press, granted by the European Union.

Under Benchemsi's supervision, many TelQuel and Nichane journalists received international awards, notably the RFI-Reporters without borders prize and the Press Now prize.

Benchemsi completed fellowships in Newsweek and the Los Angeles Times.

He has also given conferences in the Middle-East, Europe, the United States and India on freedom of speech in Morocco, and on Islam and secularism.

2008

In 2008, Nichane became the #1 Arabic weekly in Morocco.

2009

In August 2009, 100,000 copies of TelQuel and Nichane were seized again and destroyed by the police, this time because it featured an opinion poll on King Mohammed's public record, jointly conducted with the French daily Le Monde.

"The King is above polling", said the government spokesman before writing a violent op-ed against the two weeklies.

2010

In October 2010, after four years of confrontation with the authorities (see section "legal record") Benchemsi was forcibly driven to close Nichane, which bankrupted as a consequence of a longstanding advertising boycott campaign, orchestrated by companies close to the royal palace.

In December 2010, he quit TelQuel (in order to save it from following Nichane path, observers said) and left Morocco to the United States.

In 2010, the same official, who is also Minister of Information, signed a vehement "open letter to Ahmed Benchemsi".

2011

Since January 2011, he has been a political science researcher at Stanford University and an op-ed writer for international outlets such as Le Monde, Time and The Guardian.

TelQuel editorial line got Benchemsi in trouble with the Moroccan authorities, which repeatedly prosecuted him in what Reporters Without Borders rebuked as "judicial harassment".