Adel Darwish

ِBritish Author, a veteran journalist, parliamentarian reporter & commentator based at the Press Gallery in the Palace of Westminster for the past 21 years Historian and political commentator, sometimes writes under the penname Alex Darwin ( a name he needed to use when reporting from unfriendly locations in the Middle East and Africa, where he spent the first 20 years of his career as a foreign correspondent for Fleet Street Papers). Darwish has authored five books. Darwish has worked for most Fleet Street Papers as a foreign correspondent covering Africa and the Middle East since the Six-day war in 1967 through to the late 1980s. He knew and had meetings with most leaders of the region. Although Darwish is on record for opposing giving journalists awards for doing their job, the Next Century Foundation for Peace awarded him, in 2008, the Cutting Edge Prize "for outstanding new ideas and contributions to peace and understanding via Journalism". In 2017 he accepted the Lifetime Achievement Award from the International Media Council" for his outstanding work as a journalist, covering many of the major political events of the last half a century and becoming a mentor for many aspiring young journalists. ​ As a playwright and dramatist, Darwish has been involved in British theatre, with some of his plays performed at the Edinburgh Festival and at the Young Vic and several Fringe theatres in London during the 1970s. Most of his plays were adaptations of poems and short stories from Africa, especially from Egypt. A writer, broadcaster and commentator, Darwish continues to contribute, mostly live, to major national and international networks on a variety of subjects. His expertise on international affairs covers conflict, conflict resolution, water politics, the Middle East and Africa.