Patrick Kingsley

Patrick is the Egypt correspondent for The Guardian, having been a feature writer for the newspaper for two years. He also freelances for magazines who don’t directly compete with the mother-ship. In January 2012, MHP named him one of the top five young journalists to watch, while in 2009 he was journalist of the year at the Guardian Student Media Awards. Patrick’s work has also appeared in Wired, Time Out,  Daily Mail,  NME and the Sunday Times, and he has a first in English from Cambridge University, where he edited the main student weekly, Varsity. He now lives in Cairo.