Mostafa Al-A'sar
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Opinion: Finding connection as an immigrant in the lonely city (opens the original)
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Mostafa Al-A’sar is a Toronto-based journalist, writer and human rights defender. As a young journalist in Egypt, I was arrested for being critical of the government. For more than two weeks, I was tortured. When I was freed after nearly four years in pretrial detention, I was forced into exile, and I moved through four different countries. Now, I am in Canada. Finally, I feel safe. Yet even through those hard times in exile, loneliness was a rare feeling that visited me infrequently. That is no
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