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'''Yasmin Alibhai-Brown''' (''née'' '''Damji''') is a British [[journalist]] and [[author]], who describes herself as "a leftie liberal, anti-racist, feminist, [[Muslim]]".<ref>{{cite news| last=Alibhai Brown|first=Yasmin|url=https://www.independent.co.uk/opinion/commentators/yasmin-alibhai-brown/yasmin-alibhai-brown-jack-straw-is-right-to-ask-hard-questions-about-asian-men-2180318.html|work=The Independent |title=Jack Straw is right to ask hard questions about Asian men |date=10 January 2011}}</ref> A regular columnist for the ''i'' newspaper and the ''London Evening Standard'',<ref>{{cite web | title=Yasmin Alibhai-Brown |url= http://www.cardiff.ac.uk/jomec/contactsandpeople/honorary/alibhai-brown-yasmin.html | publisher=Cardiff University | accessdate=20 April 2009}}</ref> she is a well-known commentator on immigration, diversity, and multiculturalism issues.<ref>{{cite news | last=McDonagh | first=Melanie | title=The New Statesman Profile – Yasmin Alibhai-Brown | url=http://www.newstatesman.com/200010230023 | work=New Statesman | date=23 October 2000 | accessdate=20 April 2009}}</ref><ref>{{cite news | last=Smallman | first=Etan | title=Independent Woman | url=http://www.epigram.org.uk/view.php?id=1245 | publisher=''Epigram'' | date=4 December 2006 | accessdate=20 April 2009}}</ref>
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'''Yasmin Alibhai-Brown''' (''née'' '''Damji''') is a British [[journalist]] and [[author]], who describes herself as "a leftie liberal, anti-racist, feminist, [[Muslim]]".<ref>https://www.independent.co.uk/opinion/commentators/yasmin-alibhai-brown/yasmin-alibhai-brown-jack-straw-is-right-to-ask-hard-questions-about-asian-men-2180318.html</ref> A regular columnist for the ''i'' newspaper and the ''London Evening Standard'',<ref>http://www.cardiff.ac.uk/jomec/contactsandpeople/honorary/alibhai-brown-yasmin.html </ref> she is a well-known commentator on immigration, diversity, and multiculturalism issues.<ref>http://www.newstatesman.com/200010230023 </ref><ref>http://www.epigram.org.uk/view.php?id=1245 </ref>
  
 
==Funded by the CIA==
 
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==Other interests==
 
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Yasmin Alibhai-Brown is a founding member of [[British Muslims for Secular Democracy]].<ref>''[https://www.independent.co.uk/voices/commentators/yasmin-alibhai-brown/yasmin-alibhai-brown-muslims-can-learn-from-this-new-jewish-group-436099.html "Muslims can learn from this new Jewish group"]'', ''The Independent'', 12 February 2007.</ref> She is also a patron of the ''SI Leeds Literary Prize''.<ref>''[http://sileedsliteraryprize.wordpress.com/patrons/ "SI Leeds Literary Prize: Patrons"]'' {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141113195227/http://sileedsliteraryprize.wordpress.com/patrons/ |date=13 November 2014 }}, SI Leeds Literary Prize.</ref>
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Yasmin Alibhai-Brown is a founding member of [[British Muslims for Secular Democracy]].<ref>''[https://www.independent.co.uk/voices/commentators/yasmin-alibhai-brown/yasmin-alibhai-brown-muslims-can-learn-from-this-new-jewish-group-436099.html "Muslims can learn from this new Jewish group"]'', ''The Independent'', 12 February 2007.</ref> She is also a patron of the ''SI Leeds Literary Prize''.<ref>''[http://sileedsliteraryprize.wordpress.com/patrons/ "SI Leeds Literary Prize: Patrons"]'' https://web.archive.org/web/20141113195227/http://sileedsliteraryprize.wordpress.com/patrons/, SI Leeds Literary Prize.</ref>
 
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==References==
 
==References==

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(journalist, author)
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Bornborn 10 December 1949
Kampala, Uganda
ReligionIslam
Member ofBritish-American Project
British establishment Muslim journalist.

Yasmin Alibhai-Brown (née Damji) is a British journalist and author, who describes herself as "a leftie liberal, anti-racist, feminist, Muslim".[1] A regular columnist for the i newspaper and the London Evening Standard,[2] she is a well-known commentator on immigration, diversity, and multiculturalism issues.[3][4]

Funded by the CIA

The British-American Project includes a number of prominent UK and US journalists and broadcasters among its membership. UK journalist, Yasmin Alibhai-Brown, told The Guardian of one BAP conference:

“The amount of drink, the way you were treated, the dinners with everyone who was anyone used to come a lot. It was money that I’d never seen at any conference before. We used to joke, ‘this is obviously funded by the CIA'.”[5]

Other interests

Yasmin Alibhai-Brown is a founding member of British Muslims for Secular Democracy.[6] She is also a patron of the SI Leeds Literary Prize.[7]

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