About

My name is Fozia Ismail, I run a Somali supper club and research project in Bristol. 

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Arawelo Eats is a platform for exploring East African food in exciting ways; not just what's being served on the plates at my supper club but what it means for our understanding of belonging in a post- Brexit world. 

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This has involved me researching and writing about race and British identity for the Oxford Symposium on Food & Cookery, designing workshops with Keep It Complex feminist art collective, Serpentine Gallery, Jerwood Project Space & Museum of London and Colonial Countryside Project using food as method to think through some of these complex issues. 

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I have been featured on Observer Food Magazine, BBC Radio 4 Food Programme, Oxford Symposium on Food & Cookery Ox Tales podcast, Food 52, Crumbs Magazine, Vice Munchies & Bristol 24/7.

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By day I am a Research Coordinator for University of West England and I am also a City Fellow for the Arnolfini - Centre for Contemporary Arts in Bristol on my project Camel Meat and Tapes. 

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