The young Arab-African Muslim, who grew up in Australia, has dedicated her life to dismantling hackneyed stereotypes and empowering youth, women and people from culturally diverse backgrounds. Her TEDx talk on unconscious bias has been viewed more than 1.5 million times. Now, Yassmin’s released her first book, a window into her own extraordinary life and a much-needed alternative perspective in a world consumed by Islamophobia.
“I realised that, growing up, I had never seen any stories that reflected my experience. Not on TV, not in books, not in the music space, nothing.” Yassmin was just two when her parents made the daring trip halfway across the world to live in Australia. They’d left Sudan as the African nation became increasingly radicalised in the aftermath of a coup and the rise…
