Yasser Talaat Hafez Thabet (Arabic: ياسر ثابت) is an acclaimed Egyptian journalist and liberal writer.
In 2001, he became the managing editor of Sawt Al-Ummah private-owned newspaper, before leaving for Qatar in August 2002 to be Senior Producer of Al-Jazeera Channel.
Thabet gave presentations on media issues in UK, Austria, Spain, Turkey, Greece, Canada and US.
On 11 June 2009, Yasser Thabet was a speaker at a conference titled Civilian Capacity Building and Democratic Consciousness Raising in Security and Human Rights which was organized in Ankara, Turkey by The Turkish Economic and Social Studies Foundation (TESEV).
[4] Thabet writes regularly in his well-known blog Qabl Al-Tofan[2], Arabic for Before The Deluge about history, literature and even sports in a distinguished and articulated style.