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Yasmine Allas

Known For: Writer, member of the Marhaba Organisation
Country: Netherlands

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Yasmine Allas has written three novels (Idil, a girl, 1998, The general with the six fingers, 2001 and The blue room, 2004). Yasmine has also written for the Volkskrant, one of the leading newspapers in the Netherlands. An edited version of her articles was published in 2006 as Ontheemd en toch thuis. (No home and yet a home) In this book, a tribute speech to the murdered Dutch filmmaker Theo van Gogh was added. Born in Somalia in 1967 she left the country on her own at a quite young age and arrived in 1987 in Amsterdam where she started her career as an actress with the theater group the Trust.

Besides writing, Yasmine Allas is an active member of the Marhaba Organisation, a cultural and social foundation with Islamic roots, which aims building bridges between the different groups which are living in the Netherlands. Yasmine Allas appears regularly on radio and television in the Netherlands since 1998. Most recently in Paul Rosenmöller meets Yasmine Allas, 27th May 2006. This program was recorded in Hargeisha (North Somalia)

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