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Mostafa Al-a'sar

Toronto

Contributor and Researcher at Freelance

journalist | Writer | Filmmaker | HRD | @CJFE/@MasseyCollege Journalism Fellow | Ex-Fellow @TimepDC | Former Political Prisoner | Founder & CEO of @REDWORDorg

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Articles

  • Nov 27, 2024 | timep.org | Mostafa Al-a'sar |Haid Haid |Salma Daoudi

    This article is part of a collaborative project between the Arabi Facts Hub (AFH) and the Tahrir Institute for Middle East Policy (TIMEP) on misinformation and disinformation in the Arab World. As Egypt faces rough economic conditions that have severely harmed the standard of living for its citizens, the country’s government has shifted part of the blame onto refugees.

  • Aug 7, 2024 | humena.org | Mostafa Al-a'sar

    “I felt like it’s a period of time in prison where we die. People have been sentenced to remain in this tomb. Especially with the rotation of detention orders for political prisoners, the spread of COVID-19, and the visits ban. There, nothing gives us hope.”   -These are the words of the Egyptian journalist and former detainee, Solafa Magdy, describing her feelings during the heat waves she experienced while imprisoned in El Qanater Women’s Prison.

  • May 28, 2024 | timep.org | Lamine Benghazi |Maroun M Sfeir |Mostafa Al-a'sar |Christine Bustany

    With an anticipated turnout of half the world’s population at the ballot boxes this year, Tunisian voters are gearing up for their third presidential election since the 2011 Revolution. However, against the backdrop of an authoritarian turn initiated by President Saied since July 25, 2021, the upcoming 2024 presidential elections in Tunisia present a starkly different political landscape from its predecessors.

  • May 3, 2024 | timep.org | Mostafa Al-a'sar |Nader Durgham

    Egypt’s unrelenting crackdown on journalists is a cornerstone of President Abdel-Fattah El-Sisi’s regime strategy to completely control public discourse, opinion, and narrative, which it views as necessary for its survival. The security apparatus consistently employs arrests, security-related maltreatment, threats, and administrative restrictions to undermine the press, on the institutional and individual levels.

  • Mar 28, 2024 | timep.org | Mostafa Al-a'sar |Nader Durgham |Christine Bustany

    Read this article in Arabic. “Sent from Samsung device” is the iconic sentence that sums up the current state of the media in Egypt, where security officers control nearly all of the content Egyptians are allowed to consume. There were many things I had to catch up on in 2021. I was just released from prison after spending three and a half years behind bars as a political prisoner.

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23 Apr 25

The 35th anniversary of the Canadian Journalism Foundation (CJF). ‘As journalism goes, so goes democracy’. https://t.co/Knh2eoSB2l

Mostafa Al-A’sar | مصطفى الأعصر
Mostafa Al-A’sar | مصطفى الأعصر @MostafaAlasar
19 Apr 25

بما إني كتبت قبل كده بوست عن بلبن قبل ما الأزمة تتفاقم بالشكل ده، فواجب إني أعلق، من باب اللهم إنا نعوذ بك من أن نظلم أو نُظلم أو نجهل أو يجهل علينا. -مازلت معنديش تعاطف مع بلبن، ولكنه رأي شخصي ومدفوع بعاطفة، بسبب القرف اللي كانوا بيقدموه، إلى جانب الإسفاف والشراهة والسفه في

Mostafa Al-A’sar | مصطفى الأعصر
Mostafa Al-A’sar | مصطفى الأعصر @MostafaAlasar
17 Apr 25

What pride and what sadness! The William Southam Journalism Fellowship concludes. Ready for my next journey. https://t.co/7AeUAGjk6b