About

I am Asad Hussein, a writer and editor based in the United Kingdom.

I was born in Kenya, my heritage reaching back to Somalia and Ethiopia.

As a child in Dadaab, then the world’s largest refugee camp, I dreamt of becoming a writer. The dogeared paperbacks I found were my escape, a window to a world that seemed distant. The idea of leaving—of a journey anywhere—was a kind of hope, almost a fever, that coloured our days. It gave a sense of movement to lives suspended in waiting. I became a sort of wayfarer, curious about the world and the future that lay ahead.

My profession, I suppose, was almost inevitable: journalism. I moved through newsrooms, through stories that never settled, drawn by the need to see and record.

Then I left—to Princeton, where I studied literature, and to Oxford, where I took a Master’s in Refugee and Forced Migration Studies.

I moved between continents, between disciplines, between those who studied problems and those who lived them. My writing changed. It became longer, slower, more deliberate. I wrote for The New York Times, The Guardian, Foreign Policy—trying to make sense of politics, culture, business, and the shifting currents of global affairs.

Welcome to my blog, a home of ideas and stories. The work is the same: seeing, listening, making sense of things. The journey continues.

There is always another story.