Biography

Bachir Boumaaza

by Monika Bhatt,

Bachir Boumaaza is a well-known Belgian personality known for rising up to fame through his YouTube channel. A social activist and YouTuber, he is known better as his online pseudonym Athene. He is a poker player and has risen into fame after raising 15 million dollars for charity. He was born on 9th of June, 1980 and fans of his channel and of his activism, try to gain insight to his life and view his bio and wiki page a lot.

Born in Antwerp, Belgium, Athene is of Moroccan and Belgian ancestry. He studied in the Sint-Agnes, Lyceum Borgerhout and Lyceum Deurne before starting his career in YouTube. His YouTube career started on 2007 whereby he started creating videos by playing the role of the World of Warcraft player named Athene. He, his girlfriend and friend were seen playing video games on the video and he also released a movie. As Athene, he started personal vlogs, social and political activism and interviews. He has created over 9000 personal video responses for his fans and is currently is representative for gaming peripherals manufacturer named Razer USA.

Athene, apart from his career as a YouTuber, has also been included extensively in the field of charity. He raised 1 million dollars through a 100 day charity program for Save the Children on 2012. It was also used for areas in the Horn of Africa. He is also the founder of Gaming for Good, a platform to raise money for charity. 15 million has been raised by the platform for charity. He also has a successful poker career on PokerStars. He has also gone on the release a doc u mentary called Athene’s Theory of everything on 2011 and his YouTube videos discuss scientific topics. He also founded the University of Gaming, which provides online video courses.

Bachir’s personal life too is discussed as much as his career is. He has been in a long term affair with his girlfriend Tania. Tania too posts several videos on YouTube and is a well-known YouTube personality. Bachir’s girlfriend also appears on many of his YouTube acts. There is no information available about Bachir’s previous relationships and dating history. He has not been known to cheat on his girlfriend and seems to be completely devoted to her. He has never been a s sumed to be a gay or a bi-sexual. He has never been married and it is not known when he will make Tania his spouse. He has never had any children as well. The relationship with his girlfriend is getting along pretty well and it can be said that the couple will surely be tying the knot real soon.

Bachir has raised a lot of money for charity and also made 300 thousand Euros in one and half years in his poker career. This speaks volumes about the net worth and salary he must have, but the exact amount is yet unknown.