Mustafa Hamid (Arabic: مصطفى حامد‎; born March 1945 in Alexandria, Kingdom of Egypt),[1][2] also known as Abu Walid al-Masri (Arabic: أبو وليد المصري‎) and Hashim al-Makki (Arabic: هاشم المكّي‎), is a journalist who in the 1980s fought as an Islamic jihad volunteer during the Soviet–Afghan War.[3] He is reported to have been an al-Qaeda advisor and taught at the Al Farouq training camp in the 1990s. He served as a bureau chief in Afghanistan for Al Jazeera from 1998–2001, before leaving for Iran.