About us

Just Journalism is an independent organisation made up of a team of dedicated monitors, researchers and analysts from a variety of backgrounds and professions. We are funded by private individuals. We are joined by an advisory board made up of distinguished individuals. Click here to read more about them.

We are united by a common appreciation of the immense influence of the media in today’s society and its impact upon public opinion and foreign policy. Adhering to core standards of journalistic integrity is therefore critical if we are to maintain a balanced and informed view of what is going on in the world.

Adel Darwish is Just Journalism’s Director.

Adel is a veteran Fleet Street reporter who has worked for most British national newspapers, authored several books and is regarded as one of the top British commentators and specialists on the Middle East.

He was Middle East senior reporter for The Independent for a decade and was the first journalist in the world to expose Saddam Hussein’s missile programme. As well as The Independent, Mr Darwish has worked for The Daily Telegraph and The Times and his articles have been printed in The Daily Mail, The Daily Express, The Scotsman, The Washington Post and The Economist magazine. He frequently appears as a commentator on the BBC, Sky News and ITN, as well as major American and Canadian networks and Arabic-language television stations.

Adel was born in Alexandria, Egypt and moved to Britain in 1959. He began his career as a journalist in Africa as a correspondent for several Fleet Street newspapers, before moving in the early 1970s to the Middle East to cover events there.

As a prolific Middle Eastern journalist and writer, Mr Darwish covered the 1973 Yom Kippur War, the Iran-Iraq War (1980-1988), the Lebanese Civil War (1975-1990), the Israel-Egypt Peace Treaty (1979), the assassination of Egyptian President Anwar Al Sadat (1981) and his state funeral, and the Gulf War (1991).

His books include Unholy Babylon: the secret history of Saddam's war (1990), Water Wars (1995), Between the Quill and the Sword: The Political Background to the Satanic Verses Affairs (1989) and Behind the Diplomatic Veil: Islamic fundamentalism and secret diplomacy (1985).