A global nomad, Mostafa has lived in over a dozen countries and traveled to dozens more.
He first started writing about his travel experiences at the age of five when he was living in India. He has kept writing about life abroad ever since.
While he pens most of his travel experiences in his notebooks, he kept the following online blogs while living in China, Great Britain, the United States, and Guatemala.
From 2016 to 2017, Mostafa lived in Beijing where he studied at Tsinghua University as a Schwarzman Scholar.
Scholar in Beijing is a compilation of the essays, opinion pieces, and journal entries he wrote during his time in China.
From 2010 to 2011, Mostafa lived in London where he studied at London Business School and was a founding member of the Association of Graduate Egyptian Students (AGES).
The Londoner Annual is the blog he kept during this period and contains the articles he wrote for the Petrie Museum of Egyptian Archaeology and his commentary on life in London.
From 2000 to 2004, Mostafa lived in New York City during which he studied at the United Nations International School (UNIS).
The New York City Diaries is a short travelogue that he wrote during his first visit back to NYC in 2010, the year he graduated from the University of Virginia. It contains his reflections of how he and the city had changed since he first lived there.
From 2009 to 2010, Mostafa was a member of a team of interdisciplinary students at the University of Virginia which travelled to Guatemala to design and implement a water filtration system and hygiene education program in the Tzununa community of Lake Atitlan.
The Guatemalan Travelogue is a short travelogue Mostafa wrote during his travels there.
"The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes."
- Marcel Proust