Adel Darwish, is a British author, historian, political commentator and a veteran journalist, parliamentarian reporter based at the Press Gallery in the Palace of Westminster. Darwish has authored five books.
Darwish worked for many Fleet Street Newspapers (and published in some international titles) as a foreign correspondent, covering the Middle East region since the Six-day war in 1967 through to the 1990s. He knew and had meetings with most leaders of the region.
In 2008 Darwish was awarded the Next Century Foundation Peace “ ‘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.”
Darwish is one of the remaining handful of Fleet Street foreign reporters who witnessed the unfolding of historic events that lead to bloody wars and some remarkable break-through moments towards peace. He met hundreds of personalities, great and small, jailers and prisoners, policemen and terrorists, bishops and actresses, feminist movement leaders, artists, poets, novelists and filmmakers. Among many who made the region’s history he encountered, interviewed and often befriended reactionaries and reformers, peace makers and war mongers, diplomats, spies and activists of many nationalities including the good the bad and the inbetweeners. Darwish has also been involved in British theatre between 1975 and 1980, with some of his plays performed at the Edinburgh Festival and at the Young Vic and several Fringe theatres in London. The plays were adaptations of literature and folklore from Africa, especially from Egypt. A writer, broadcaster and commentator, Darwish continues to contribute, to major national and international networks on a variety of subjects like Westminster parliament, international affairs, security, conflict resolution, water politics, the Middle East and Africa.
