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Ismail Einashe

Award-winning journalist and writer
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The Sunday Times: The Bangladeshi shopkeepers who took on Sicily’s Cosa Nostra mafia →

May 05, 2021

Bangladeshi shopkeepers suffered years of threats and extortion in Palermo. Then they stood up to the gangsters — and won

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Coda Story: ‘I don’t see any future in Sicily’: How migrants have become scapegoats for the coronavirus crisis →

April 19, 2021
Coda Story: ‘I don’t see any future in Sicily’: How migrants have become scapegoats for the coronavirus crisis

The Italian island prides itself on being a welcoming crossroads of cultures, but rising populist rhetoric is changing the conversation

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ArtReview: The Chaotic Energy of Nairobi’s Artworld →

March 30, 2021

Though the Kenyan capital’s art market might be in its infancy, its community is thriving

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BBC News: Why a Somali-born fighter is being honoured in Rome →

August 27, 2020

Ismail Einashe looks at how some Italians are revaluating their colonial past in Africa.

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Coda Story: In a Kenyan refugee camp, a radio host fights Covid-19 disinformatio →

June 10, 2020

One radio presenter is using the airwaves to bring vital facts to Dadaab’s 217,000 residents

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Foreign Policy: For Somaliland and Djibouti, Will New Friends Bring Benefits? →

March 19, 2019

Interest in the Horn of Africa from foreign powers has always been a double-edged sword

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Frieze: Reading the ‘Black Mediterranean’ through Europe’s Migrant Crisi →

March 11, 2019

The travelling multimedia exhibition ‘ReSignifications’ represents and responds to the crisis of people on the move from Africa to Europe across the Mediterranean Sea

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The Sunday Times: No one is safe from knives in my bleak and furious city →

February 25, 2019

Two Somali youths were stabbed to death in London last week. Ismail Einashe tells of a community haunted by gang culture and memories of civil war

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Frieze: What Lena Dunham Writing a Syrian Refugee Film Tells Us About Hollywood’s ‘Diversity’

November 28, 2018

With the increased telling of refugee stories the film industry may claim to be listening, but the real power remains in the editorial chair

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The Nation: In the Valley of Death: Somaliland’s Forgotten Genocide →

October 22, 2018

Thirty years ago, the US-backed Somali government slaughtered an estimated 200,000 people. Now survivors want US help uncovering the crimes

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Frieze: One Year On, What Were the Cultural Responses to the Tragedy of Grenfell Tower? →

June 14, 2018

From Stormzy at the Brit Awards to a Steve McQueen film to Forensic Architecture's media archive, what Grenfell has shown us about ourselves

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The Sunday Times: Grenfell: Six months on →

December 17, 2017

Six months after the Grenfell fire, Ismail Einashe, who grew up on a similar London estate, reveals the heartbreaking truth about that terrible night

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The Guardian: 'I spent August avoiding menacing boys': my long hot city summers’ →

August 25, 2017
The Guardian: 'I spent August avoiding menacing boys': my long hot city summers’

For the first 17 years of my life, I didn’t have a holiday. Would I know what to do when I escaped my inner-city estate?

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The Atlantic: The Britain That Was Fades Into Memory →

March 31, 2017

Theresa May can’t keep her promises about the virtues of Brexit

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The Guardian: The struggle to be British: my life as a second-class citizen →

March 02, 2017

After arriving in Britain as a child, I fought hard to feel like I belonged. Now it feels that the status of migrants like me is permanently up for review

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