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Biography

Mostafa Darwish is a journalist currently based in Ireland for the Echo. Darwish 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 the United Arab Emirates. In February 2019 Darwish was featured as the journalist of the month by the International Journalists’ Network (IJNET) Most recently, he is covering the migrant 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.

Content

Total articles 77

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  Watch: Hero delivery driver tells how he had no 'time to be afraid' when he tackled Dublin attacker

  By Michael O'Toole Verified, Cathal Ryan Verified, Mostafa Darwish Verified

  Nov. 24, 2023

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  Watch: Eyewitness tells of moment delivery driver lost leg in M50 garda car collision

  By Mostafa Darwish Verified

  Oct. 30, 2023

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  Inside abandoned Dublin homeless camp after rough sleepers 'moved on'

  By Andrei Scintian, Cathal Ryan Verified, Mostafa Darwish Verified

  Aug. 26, 2023

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The Echo

The Echo and Echoplex are two music venues in the Echo Park neighborhood of Los Angeles. A variety of national and international touring acts have played at the venues over the last 10 years ranging from indie acts to bluegrass to world music. The venues have also hosted some day festivals such as Waved Out Fest, Roots Roadhouse, Filter Magazine Culture Collide, FYF Fest, Power of the Riff and much more. Both rooms have regular club / dance nights with Funky Sole, Part Time Punks, Grand Ole Echo, and local residency nights once a week in the Echo and Bootie LA, Dub Club in Echoplex.