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Mostafa Al-A'sar | مصطفى الأعصر
@mostafaalasar.bsky.social
JHR/The Walrus contributing writer | Founder & CEO of @REDWORD.ca | journalist | Writer | Researcher | Filmmaker | HRD | Canadian Journalists for Free Expression (CJFE)/MasseyCollege Journalism Fellow | Ex-Fellow @TimepDC
My short film "Car; When Can I Have It?" will be available for virtual screening starting tomorrow for seven days, featuring a remarkable lineup of international short films officially selected for the 2025 Oakville Festival of Film and Arts (OFFA).

watch.eventive.org/offa2025/pla...
June 17, 2025 at 6:15 PM
My contribution letter to Alaa Abdelfattah with @pencanada.bsky.social 2024/2025 annual report. #FreeAlaa #SaveLaila
June 16, 2025 at 5:34 PM
"When people don’t choose their own destiny, it gets chosen for them—by killers and criminals".

My first article is about the recent Canadian federal elections, titled: “First Time Elections in Canada... What Does It Mean?”
May 15, 2025 at 10:45 PM
May 9, 2025 at 2:14 AM
My short film CAR; When Can I Have it! has been officially selected to participate in the 12th edition of the Oakville Festival of Film and Art (OFFA). The festival will take place 18-25th June in Oakville and Mississauga, Ontario, Canada. I’ll share more details as soon as they are announced.
May 6, 2025 at 2:16 AM
The 35th anniversary of the Canadian Journalism Foundation (CJF).
‘As journalism goes, so goes democracy’.
April 23, 2025 at 10:28 PM
What pride and what sadness!
The William Southam Journalism Fellowship concludes.
Ready for my next journey.
April 17, 2025 at 7:31 PM
I am honored to have contributed a chapter to the newly published book Imprisoning a Revolution: Writings from Egypt's Incarcerated, released by the University of California Press.
March 6, 2025 at 8:53 PM
The letter has been signed by notable literary and human rights figures, including Nobel Prize-winning Turkish novelist Orhan Pamuk, Turkish author Elif Shafak, and Egyptian actor Khalid Abdalla.

#FreeAlaa
March 5, 2025 at 9:08 PM
As a leader of Redword for Human Rights & Freedom of Expression, I join a group of journalists, writers, and human rights organization leaders in a letter and urgent appeal to the President of Egypt, Abdel Fattah El-Sisi, calling for a presidential pardon for writer Alaa Abdel Fattah.

#FreeAlaa
March 5, 2025 at 9:08 PM
Seen in Toronto downtown, today. #ontarioelection #dougford #liberal #conservative
February 25, 2025 at 7:29 PM
Today marks day 66 of Dr. Laila Soueif’s hunger strike and day 26 of our consecutive one-day hunger strikes in solidarity with her. Today, I'm Joining Dr. Laila Soueif for a 24-hour hunger strike in solidarity.
Laila's health is in critical danger.
Life for Laila and freedom for Alaa.
December 4, 2024 at 5:47 AM