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Topic | Italy

Ismail Einashe

Published: 8:45pm, 5 Jan, 2019

Updated: 12:53pm, 15 Jan, 2019

Bangladeshi market traders and customers in Balero Market, Palermo

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Ismail Einashe

Ismail is a British-Somali journalist. He has written for The Sunday Times, The Guardian, The New York Times, Prospect, The Atlantic, NPR and The Nation, among other places. He is an Ochberg Fellow at the Dart Center for Journalism and Trauma at Columbia University Journalism School and an associate at the Cambridge Migration Research Network (CAMMIGRES).