Arawelo Eats

Arawelo Eats Arawelo Eats is an East African supper club (set up by Fozia Ismail, co- founder of The Matatu Kitchen) serving Somali inspired dishes.

It is also a platform for Fozia’s other projects which involve musings on food and identity.

Eid Mubarak - throw back to Saturday Eid Special a few years back. May Allah protect Muslim people who continue to be vi...
20/03/2026

Eid Mubarak - throw back to Saturday Eid Special a few years back. May Allah protect Muslim people who continue to be violently oppressed across the world and may they find a semblance of peace today. Inshallah we will be free of American Zionist imperialism one day.

Really lovely to chat to Robert Murphy, reporter for ITV News West. Always a privilege to highlight the great East Afric...
06/03/2025

Really lovely to chat to Robert Murphy, reporter for ITV News West. Always a privilege to highlight the great East African food that's on offer in Bristol. Please go check out pop up in Old Market opening tonight!
They are there every Thursday, Friday and Saturday for the month of March!

Always terrible at reposting but if fancy trying some lovely Sambusa please see its been lovely working with a team tha...
19/01/2024

Always terrible at reposting but if fancy trying some lovely Sambusa please see its been lovely working with a team that views food in such an expansive way.

Also love the Palestinian design concept by artist and designer Ayed Arafah .designs which preserves Palestinian food culture, wisdom, struggles as well as recipes through aprons.
Mine features the Sambusa or Sambusak on them. May the Palestinian cause see through this awful time to a Free and always beautiful Palestine. 🍉 🇵🇸

Regram- This week in Vittles Recipes, the first of Fozia Ismail's Experiments in Yam series, about healing, Black kinship and the many meanings and powers of yam. Today's recipe is roasted sweet potato, puy lentil and coconut sambusa 🍠

Our columnists are all creating their recipes around different prompts: language, home, technique, cooking for two, trial and error. Fozia's comes from bell hooks:

‘… Yam was a life sustaining symbol of black kinship and community. Everywhere Black women live in the world, we eat yam. It is a symbol of our diasporic connections.'

Check the link in our bio for the recipe. Up next week, Nick Bramham! You can find all the recipes and essays so far on the website.

We keep it moving come through to Tonight thanks to all organisers trying to stay positive through the many crises upend...
17/11/2023

We keep it moving come through to
Tonight thanks to all organisers trying to stay positive through the many crises upending our world. We are feeling a little run out of words but hoping the sunshine and sharing stories with these wonderful humans will revive us and of course we always lean into & look to strength by the amazing humour of our elders. Nothing gives you prespective like a Somali nomadic elder!

Join us this Friday night for an exploration of the intersection of migration and climate justice through the lens of artistic practice and the works of artists and guests who harness the power of storytelling.

This Salon is a part of the series of Pop Change Salons presented with Climate Spring, in collaboration with the .

By bringing into a conversation visionary guests and artists, it explores approaches that shine a light on new narratives uncovering the intricate connections between migration and environmental justice.

We will hear from , , , and .

Friday the 17th, at 06:30 PM at .
Register now in Link in stories.

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So proud of the work that and I have been doing with it's been a wonderful way to express and find solace in Somali no...
10/11/2023

So proud of the work that and I have been doing with it's been a wonderful way to express and find solace in Somali nomadic stories, people and culture. Thanks to for his phenomenal archival work and for giving space to these stories
📼”Love letters, gossip, prayers & poetry: the tapes that sustained the Somali diaspora”. My feature on the legacy of cassette tapes in the Somali diaspora. Was a pleasure to interview on their incredible project highlighting this unique history. With all the tragic depictions of Somalis, often our humanity gets lost — our sense of humour, creativity & most importantly resilience ❤️ A lot was edited out of this. Some very important voices that point to how expansive cassette tapes reflect Somali history & culture.

I will try post an unedited version asap. For now link in bio 💋

It's been a heavy week. There's some beautiful examples of creativity that come through surviving displacement that I h...
17/10/2023

It's been a heavy week. There's some beautiful examples of creativity that come through surviving displacement that I hope will bring some solace to anyone affected by the ongoing genocide of Palestinian people really honoured to be chairing this talk tomorrow come through


Friends in Bristol and beyond,

Picturing Displacement is a symposium organised with Counterpoints Arts at Martin Parr Foundation, an exhibition and a new network that will explore the ways visual art can illuminate and reshape narratives around migration, refuge and belonging.

I will be sharing with ✨ The panel is moderated by Fozia Ismail of 💥🔥

Join us at the on the 18th October 6pm for a series of short talks. The discussion will touch on questions of representation, activism and lived experience.

Plus (!) food inspired by Middle Eastern, African and Eastern Europe cuisines will be made by for all the share. 😋

Thank you to the featured photographers for sharing your work, it was honour to curate the group exhibition outside

Photo: by Adiam Yemane

Supported by:

Throw back to this wonderful photo by for the project for I was approached to reflect on the colour I most associate...
06/01/2023

Throw back to this wonderful photo by for the project for I was approached to reflect on the colour I most associate with Somalia. I chose Orchre because of our use of henna. Henna varies from light orange to deep brown and for me represents a spiritual intimacy between Somali women.

Colours of Africa is a kaleidoscope of 60 artists from across the continent, curated by Design Indaba. Link in bio

kunstraumlondon 🔥 This Thursday - Audible Tapestries, as part of Numbifest 2022: All Flourishing is Mutual 🌺 Audible ...
29/06/2022


kunstraumlondon 🔥 This Thursday - Audible Tapestries, as part of Numbifest 2022: All Flourishing is Mutual 🌺 Audible Tapestries focuses on finding new ways to combine sound with physical & woven artefacts, exploring the links between Somali nomadic weaving patterns and the songs that are an inherent part of the weaving process. The evening includes sharing of Camel Meat + Tapes soundscape, talk with Q + A and screening of short film Kabniin. The dhaqan collective, led by Ayan Cilmi & Fozia Ismail, is a feminist art collective of Somali women, centering the voices of womxn and elders in their community, and privileging co-creation and collaboration. Check out Instagram for the full festival programme! There’s events every day till Saturday! About Numbi: NUMBI is a kind of dance that happens in Somalia where one lets go of one’s inhibitions and gets free. It is that ethos, with the emphasis on freedom, that inspired NUMBI founder, Kinsi Abdulleh, to set up the organisation. We’re about celebrating the global and local voices that don’t have the materials or platform to express their voices. We’re about art, we’re about beauty and we’re about fostering a sense of community and solidarity amongst artists, art-lovers, creatives and dreamers of all stripes.

Send through your cookbooks people!Feel honoured to be the food assssor for this wonderful award Can't wait to get stuc...
15/06/2022

Send through your cookbooks people!

Feel honoured to be the food assssor for this wonderful award

Can't wait to get stuck in. See you on otherside!


andresimonawards

We are delighted to announce this year's food assessor of the André Simon Food and Drink Book Awards is Fozia. Fozia is a scholar, cook and founder of Arawelo Eats, a platform for exploring politics, identity and colonialism through East African food. She has worked with a range of cultural institutions on links between food, power and empire in the arts. When not critically eating her way through life's messiness she can be found plotting with dhaqan collective, a Somali feminist art collective based at the Pervasive Media Studio in Bristol.

So this afternoon my sis tells me I am in Observer Food Monthly, I thought she was joking! Massive thanks to and partic...
25/02/2019

So this afternoon my sis tells me I am in Observer Food Monthly, I thought she was joking! Massive thanks to and particularly Asma Khan who is as generous with her time as she is with her spirit. She has such an awe inspiring sense of integrity! Can’t wait to watch her Netflix Chefs Table documentary! Also can’t go without mentioning .sen who is an awesome food writer and profiled me two years ago! Look at all the wonderful immigrant food chefs/writers doing our thing in our own way! Somali food in the Observer Food Magazine??? Who’d of thought it!

06/12/2018

Looking forward to this workshop with this Sat. Ginger cake and spiced tea ☕️ whilst unpicking all things food and empire 💥

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