Mostafa is an Egyptian multidisciplinary journalist and human rights defender interested in freedom of expression and freedom of the press and media. A former fellow at the Tahrir Institute for Middle East Policy, a member of PEN Canada’s Writers in Exile program, and a recipient of the William Southam Journalism Fellowship at the University of Toronto. He spent nearly four years in political prison in Egypt due to his journalistic and human rights work and was forced to live in exile. He has contributed hundreds of articles, reports, and investigations to several Arab, regional, and international periodicals and journalistic and human rights institutions.