Dr. Ali Ghandour was born in Casablanca in 1983. From 2004 to 2009 he studied Arabic and political science with a focus on Islamic studies at the University of Leipzig. From 2012 to 2017 he received his doctorate in Islamic theology as part of the Research Training Group Islamic Theology at the University of Münster. From 2014 to 2017 he also studied systematic Buddhism at the Tibetan Center Hamburg.