Rachel Pieh Jones's Archive
Walking in Somaliland
Rachel Pieh Jones takes to the streets of Hargeisa, the capital of Somaliland, by foot. “I was aware of everything from harmonicas to screeching tires, who was behind us, who was in front of us, who was talking to us. Was the woman right?”
Around the World in Toilets
Wherever you travel, you’re going to need a bathroom. What will you find? Well, it depends on the place.
The Fish in the Clouds
Rachel Pieh Jones unravels a mystery on the streets of Dire Dawa: “I’m not sure which is more implausible: that fish fall from clouds or that the government could come up with such a creative ruse to pacify a potential conflict.”
Women Are My Tribe
Rachel Jones on the gender imbalance in Djibouti’s most popular sport: “The men are playing games while the women are working. To outsiders this can seem inherently sexist.”
You Can’t Go Home Again
Rachel Pieh Jones profiles a Yemeni American struggling to make a life in a new country: a�?It is so expensive here,a�? Ibrahim said. a�?I cana��t work. My kids arena��t in school. We dona��t speak French. We feel so much stress.a�?
To Find a House, To Make a Home
In Djibouti, writes Rachel Pieh Jones, the work of dilals, or house finders, is unheralded yet profound: “Home becomes our place of melding the old and new, familiar and foreign, into the shape of our own liking.”
