Ismail Einashe
Journalist at Freelance
Journalist. Bylines in the BBC, the Guardian, FP, et al | Author of STRANGERS @Tate | Member @Lost_in_Eu | Co-editor "Lost in Media" book | Fellow @Dartcenter
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Feb 12, 2025 |
theguardian.com | Ismail Einashe
A few days after Christmas 1994, aged 10, I arrived in London as a refugee from Somalia. At Heathrow airport, I stood staring in awe at the escalators. I had heard about these “walking machines” from an elderly Somali woman in Addis Ababa who sat on a corner selling sweets, biscuits and cold Fanta in glass bottles. She had painted a picture of London, a city she had never been to, as a place of wonders. “You won’t need to use your legs to walk there – they have machines that move for you,” she said.
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Nov 29, 2024 |
yahoo.com | Ismail Einashe
[Kairos Futura]Generate Key TakeawaysKenya’s capital, Nairobi, has long been known as “the green city in the sun” because of its mix of forest and grasslands among the urban sprawl, but it all depends on where you are viewing it from. Seen from one of the city’s comfortable apartment blocks or homes, then yes, perhaps – from one of its densely packed slums, then no. There, life can be characterised by poverty and ecological disaster, such as flooding and deadly landslides.
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Sep 25, 2024 |
aol.com | Ismail Einashe
September 25, 2024 at 7:51 PM[Kate Stanworth ]On a moonless night in the Kenyan lakeside town of Naivasha, Anne sits inside a makeshift, two-room house, exhausted after a gruelling shift picking and sorting roses.
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Sep 25, 2024 |
bbc.com | Ismail Einashe
Women work long and gruelling hours to grow the flowers sold across Europe.
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Aug 30, 2024 |
foreignpolicy.com | Ismail Einashe
Politics Human Rights Britain is burning. The recent weeks of far-right riots have seen mobs assembling outside mosques and hotels housing asylum-seekers; the burning of public libraries; and an uptick in targeted racist violence and vandalism.
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I’m thrilled to be a 2025–26 Knight-Wallace Journalism Fellow at @UMich. I’ll be examining migration reporting by exploring the intersection of the science of trauma and the various creative forms journalists can use in their storytelling. Let's go! https://t.co/urrfMVJgrm https://t.co/LLlPkYKCuD
My latest story for @BBCAfrica looks at how climate change is threatening Kenya’s celebrated coffee industry. Kenyan farmers are grappling with rising temperatures, erratic rainfall, pests, and diseases. Photos by @katestanworth. Thanks to @journalismfund. https://t.co/W2Ffg5IXsK
RT @IsmailEinashe: My latest piece for @BBCAfrica is about a new exhibition by Nairobi-based art collective Kairos Futura, which has been w…
