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Ali Qassim

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As seen in: The Guardian, Substack, Tes, That Was The Week (Podcast), The Globe and Mail, Mongabay, Bloomberg Environment, Bloomberg Law, Bloomberg Industry Group, New Internationalist and
Covers:  Latin American environment, renewables, history, politics and economics, nineteenth-century literature, post-Brexit-related issues.

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Ali Qassim’s Biography

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Ali Qassim is a former UK and Ireland correspondent for the Washington-based Bloomberg Industry covering the environment, trade, UK regulations and Brexit. He currently works as a freelance print journalist and TV and Film researcher for a wide range of North American and UK publications.

Latest articles based on Latin American stories appeared in New Internationalist, Latin America Bureau and Mongabay.

Of Iraqi and Swedish heritage, Ali is bi-lingual in Spanish from a Madrid upbringing.

Ali Qassim’s Journalist Portfolio

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U.K. Role in EU Customs Union Seen as Problem for U.S.

U.K. Role in EU Customs Union Seen as Problem for U.S.

The U.K. will lose considerable bargaining power in trade talks with the U.S. if it agrees to a temporary cus…

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U.K. Government Urged to Set 2050 Carbon-Neutral Goal

U.K. Government Urged to Set 2050 Carbon-Neutral Goal

The British government should set a carbon-neutral greenhouse gas target by mid-century as soon as possible t…

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Uruguay's green hydrogen plans raise ecological concerns in Argentina & at home

Uruguay's green hydrogen plans raise ecological concerns in Argentina & at home

COLÓN, Argentina - Darío Larrosa was 15 when he learned to drive a motorboat. Decades later, he still loves t…

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Alejandra Parra's Zero Waste battle in southern Chile | Latin America Bureau

Alejandra Parra's Zero Waste battle in southern Chile | Latin America Bureau

Environmental defender Alejandra Parra continues to oppose a waste-to-energy incinerator in the south of Chil…

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Argentina: A past denied

Argentina: A past denied

To confront the atrocities of its military dictatorship, Argentina introduced a range of lauded 'memory and j…

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International Environment Reporter 2018 EU Outlook

International Environment Reporter 2018 EU Outlook

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Articles

How does a society remember mass repression? The case of Argentina.

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By Ali Qassim
| That Was The Week (Podcast)
“Silence Is Health” flashed around the base of Buenos Aires’s iconic Obelisk to encourage quieter traffic during President Isabel Perón’s short and turbulent rule. With the ousting of Perón by the military junta on March 24, 1976, came a more suffocating silencing of public discourse. “Censorship was widespread.
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Argentina: A past denied

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By Ali Qassim
| New Internationalist Verified
Cecilia de Vincenti was 16 years old when her mother Azucena Villaflor left the family’s house in Buenos Aires to go shopping and never came back. Witnesses saw armed men shove the 53-year-old, kicking and screaming, into a car on the local high street. ‘My father waited for her every day, convinced she’d come back. He died just four years later without knowing what happened to her’, says de Vincenti. It was later discovered that her mother was thrown from a plane into the La Plata river.
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Uruguay’s green hydrogen plans raise ecological concerns in Argentina & at home

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By Ali Qassim
| Mongabay Verified
Communities in the Argentinian town of Colón worry that an upcoming major green hydrogen project on the Uruguay River will affect local ecosystems, as well as local tourism. The Paysandú e-fuels facility is one of Uruguay’s major hydrogen projects, as the country is pushing to further decarbonize its economy and boost hydrogen exports. The plant will produce green hydrogen using renewable energy to then produce e-methanol for exporting.
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What was your first job as a journalist?

Film reviewer for "Guidepost", an English-language weekly in Madrid

Who's your favorite fictional journalist?

James Dyson, a mid-level editor in Michael Frayn's Fleet Street satire called "Towards the End of the Day"

How do you prefer to be pitched on stories?

By email