Ismail Einashe is an award-winning journalist and writer. His work has appeared in The Guardian, BBC News, The Sunday Times, Foreign Policy, El Mundo, Internazionale, 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 also co-edited Lost in Media: Migrant Perspectives and the Public Sphere (2019), a collection of critical essays examining how migrants are represented in European media, featuring contributions from writers such as Aleksandar Hemon and Ece Temelkuran.

Einashe has won multiple awards for his work, including the 2024 Daphne Caruana Galizia Prize for Journalism, the 2021 Investigative Journalism for Europe Impact Award, and a 2019 Migration Media Award. In 2020, he was a finalist for the European Press Prize.

He is a member of Lost in Europe, a cross-border journalism project investigating the disappearance of child migrants in Europe. As an Alicia Patterson Foundation Fellow in 2019, he reported on China’s influence in Africa, with a focus on Kenya, Ethiopia, Tanzania, and Zambia.

Einashe is an Ochberg Fellow and an Associate Trainer at the Dart Center for Journalism and Trauma at Columbia University. He also serves on the editorial board of Tate Etc., the magazine of the Tate Galleries.