
Mostafa Al-A’sar | مصطفى الأعصر
@MostafaAlasar
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journalist | Writer | Filmmaker | HRD | @CJFE/@MasseyCollege Journalism Fellow | Ex-Fellow @TimepDC | Founder & CEO of @REDWORDca 🇪🇬🇨🇦
Toronto, Ontario
Joined March 2020
RT @thewalrus: For Egyptian journalist @MostafaAlasar, Meta’s news ban in Canada meant losing access to real-time updates from back home—no….
thewalrus.ca
Growing up in Egypt, I knew access to news could be fragile. I didn’t expect to lose it again in Canada
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RT @ShreeParadkar: “We are desperately concerned for our journalists in Gaza, who are increasingly unable to feed themselves and their fami….
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The Associated Press, AFP, BBC News and Reuters on Thursday issued this joint statement about journalists in Gaza: We are desperately concerned for
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RT @thewalrus: In his first for The Walrus, @MostafaAlasar unpacks how Meta’s news ban is destroying press freedom in Canada. This story wa….
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Growing up in Egypt, I knew access to news could be fragile. I didn’t expect to lose it again in Canada
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RT @thewalrus: In June 2023, the Canadian government passed Bill C-18, the Online News Act, mandating that big tech companies pay media org….
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My latest piece with The Walrus.
When @MostafaAlasar, @jhrnews and The Walrus contributing writer, moved to Canada from Egypt in 2024, he was shocked to discover that he couldn’t access news on Meta. He was no stranger to government censorship, but this felt different.
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RT @ShreeParadkar: Hundreds of journalists are in serious financial, legal and security trouble after US cut funds to the Middle East Broad….
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MBN was created for Arabic-speaking audiences in the Middle East and North Africa after 9/11 and the Iraq War
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RT @Chrysographer: U.S. funding cuts to MBN lay off hundreds of journalists, putting some at risk of deportation /via @MostafaAlasar https:….
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MBN was created for Arabic-speaking audiences in the Middle East and North Africa after 9/11 and the Iraq War
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For the MBN journalists seeking asylum, a long road of hardship lies ahead – and trust in U.S. media institutions in the region may never recover. Read my latest story with The Globe And Mail:.
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MBN was created for Arabic-speaking audiences in the Middle East and North Africa after 9/11 and the Iraq War
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