Salah El Ouadie

Salah ed-Dine El-Ouadie ( Salah ed-Diin el-Wadii) is a Moroccan poet and human rights activist. He is the president and founder of Damir. His elder sister was judge

Studies He was born in August, 1952 in either Asfi or Rabat. He earned a degree in philosophy in 1982, then a degree in political science from Montpellier in 1987.

Human rights Member of the Equity and Reconciliation Commission and former detainee of Derb Mulay Cherif Prison, Salah el-Ouadie identified Qadour el-Youssfi—a member of the Moroccan delegation that affirmed before the UN in Geneva that there was no torture in Morocco —as the main torturer and man in charge of Derb Mulay Sherif Prison when el-Ouadie was there. In accordance with the official policy of the Equity and Reconciliation Commission of addressing the hardships of the victims without harming the aggressors, el-Ouadie did not publicly reveal the name of the official, though he did address him in a famous open letter, Lettre ouverte à mon tortionnaire.

His name became associated with the left, leading him to enter parliamentary and local elections, but each time his electoral ventures ended in abject failure. n 2008, he joined the ranks of the Authenticity and Modernity Party, but he resigned several years later.

Career In 1997, he was hired as a professor at the Upper School of Management and Entrepreneurship in Casablanca.

Works The Wound of the Bare Chest جراح الصدر العاري 1985

There is Still Something in the Heart Worth of Attention مازال في القلب شيء يستحق الانتباه 1988

The Groom العريس a novel 1998