About
Ismail Einashe is an award-winning journalist and author. His reporting and essays on migration, human rights and art have appeared in a wide range of international publications – including The Guardian, Foreign Policy, BBC News, The Sunday Times, The Nation and ArtReview. He is the author of "Strangers" (2023), a book by Tate Publishing that explores migration through the lens of art, and he 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. Einashe was a 2025–26 Knight-Wallace Fellow at the University of Michigan, where he examined migration reporting through the lens of trauma and art. In 2024–25, he was an Associate Lecturer in the Department of Media, Communication and Cultural Studies at Goldsmiths, University of London. Einashe is also part of a team of journalists working on Lost in Europe, a cross-border journalism collaborative that investigates the disappearance of child migrants.
