
Mostafa Darwish is a journalist currently based in Europe.
Darwish was awarded 2021 Ireland Newsbrands Investigative journalism media award for his investigation about the death in refugee centers. And he also was awarded Ireland Student Journalist of the year in Ireland's national media awards in 2020 and 2021 in a row.
In 2019, Darwish won the Thomson Foundation’s mobile journalism (‘mojo’) competition, for his report on Egypt’s sharp fare increases to an already inadequate train system.
Since beginning his career at the start of the Egyptian revolution in 2011, he has covered major news events in Egypt for both local newspapers as well as international news agencies including EPA , the Associated Press and AFP.
As a freelance multimedia journalist, Darwish has worked for APTV on more than 160 stories since 2015 alongside working for Mada Masr, BBC, al-Jazeera, aj+, Great Big Story, al-Monitor, ZoominTV.
In addition, he has led journalism workshops in Lebanon and Egypt.
Darwish has travelled across the Middle East and Europe, covering news and documenting life in Sudan, Turkey, Malaysia, Sweden, Georgia, Latvia, Ireland and United Arab Emirates.
In February 2019 Darwish was featured as the journalist of the month by International Journalists’ Network (IJNET)
Most recently, he is working full-time for the Irish Times group, along with that he's covering the migrants issues in Ireland publishing for Euro News , Middle East Eye and The Associated Press alongside his master studies in journalism at the University of Limerick and working on some guest lecturing for Irish local university Griffith College Dublin and International Centre for Journalists.
Interviews:
Darwish was awarded 2021 Ireland Newsbrands Investigative journalism media award for his investigation about the death in refugee centers. And he also was awarded Ireland Student Journalist of the year in Ireland's national media awards in 2020 and 2021 in a row.
In 2019, Darwish won the Thomson Foundation’s mobile journalism (‘mojo’) competition, for his report on Egypt’s sharp fare increases to an already inadequate train system.
Since beginning his career at the start of the Egyptian revolution in 2011, he has covered major news events in Egypt for both local newspapers as well as international news agencies including EPA , the Associated Press and AFP.
As a freelance multimedia journalist, Darwish has worked for APTV on more than 160 stories since 2015 alongside working for Mada Masr, BBC, al-Jazeera, aj+, Great Big Story, al-Monitor, ZoominTV.
In addition, he has led journalism workshops in Lebanon and Egypt.
Darwish has travelled across the Middle East and Europe, covering news and documenting life in Sudan, Turkey, Malaysia, Sweden, Georgia, Latvia, Ireland and United Arab Emirates.
In February 2019 Darwish was featured as the journalist of the month by International Journalists’ Network (IJNET)
Most recently, he is working full-time for the Irish Times group, along with that he's covering the migrants issues in Ireland publishing for Euro News , Middle East Eye and The Associated Press alongside his master studies in journalism at the University of Limerick and working on some guest lecturing for Irish local university Griffith College Dublin and International Centre for Journalists.
Interviews:
- Journalist of the month: Mostafa Darwish - International Journalists' Network (IJNet)
- UL student wins Journalist of the Year award for second time - Irish Examiner
- Violence Spikes Against Egyptian Photojournalists - Voice of America
- Blindness proves no barrier to ambitious Egyptians - CNN
- Egyptian Wins International Thomson Foundation Mobile Journalism Competition - Egyptian streets
- Egyptian mojo winner joins crushed commuters on Cairo train - Thomson Foundation
- University of Limerick journalism students sweep the boards at national media awards- Limerick Leader.