Ismail Einashe is an award-winning journalist and writer. His work has appeared in The Guardian, BBC News, The Sunday Times, Foreign Policy, The New York Times, Frieze, ArtReview, and The Nation, among many others. He's especially recognised for his coverage of migration and refugee issues, for which he has won multiple awards.
He is the author of "Look Again: Strangers" (2023), a book by Tate Publishing that explores migration through the lens of art. He co-edited the book "Lost in Media: Migrant Perspectives and the Public Sphere," (2019), which focuses on the representation of migrants in European media. This volume includes essays from renowned authors like Aleksandar Hemon, Ece Temelkuran, and Daniel Trilling.
He has won multiple awards for his work, including a 2019 Migration Media Award and the 2021 Investigative Journalism for Europe Impact Award. In 2020, he was a finalist for the European Press Prize.
Ismail is part of Lost in Europe, a cross-border journalism project investigating child migrant disappearances in Europe. As an Alicia Patterson Foundation Fellow in 2019, Ismail reported on China's involvement in Africa, focusing on Kenya, Ethiopia, Tanzania, and Zambia.
He is also an Ochberg Fellow and an associate trainer at the Dart Center for Journalism and Trauma at Columbia University. He serves on the editorial board of Tate Etc., the magazine of the Tate Galleries.
