MOSTAFA DARWISH

Mostafa Darwish is a journalist currently based in Ireland. His work has taken him to the Middle East and throughout Europe, covering news and documenting life in Sudan, Turkey, Malaysia, Sweden, Georgia, Latvia, Ireland and United Arab Emirates.

Darwish was awarded the 2021 Ireland Newsbrands Investigative Journalism Media Award for his investigation about the death in refugee centres and he also was awarded Ireland Student Journalist of the Year in Ireland's national media awards in 2020 and 2021.

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.

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, along with that he's covering 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 at Griffith College Dublin and International Centre for Journalists.