Ghassane is a researcher and the director of education and programming at the Zetkin Forum for Social Research in Berlin. He is also a professor of translation with a PhD in cultural anthropology, a political anthropologist, and an activist who has worked on grassroots, political, and popular movements from the Maghreb region. Ghassane has written articles and studies on grassroots, political, and popular movements in the Middle East and North Africa and is active in the trade union and human rights movements in Morocco.