Warda El-Kaddouri appointed as Scherpsteller

De Scherpsteller is an emerging thinker that we give opportunities to develop further, with the assignment to focus on social developments.

The search for the most inspiring and emerging thinker of the moment, brought deBuren, Pilar and Filosofie Magazine to researcher and journalist Warda El-Kaddouri. In the next two years she will reflect on social developments.

 

Warda El-Kaddouri studied Linguistics and Literature at the University of Ghent and European Studies at the KU Leuven. In 2015, she was elected as a UN youth representative. She holds a PhD in German literature on religion and identity and writes columns for, among others, MO * and De Morgen, in which she expresses herself about inclusion, sustainability, racism and discrimination. El-Kaddouri now lives in Amsterdam, where she works as a freelance journalist and researcher. Since January 2020 she's also  working for De Groene Amsterdammer.