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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> | + | '''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> |
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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"]'' | + | 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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Latest revision as of 06:40, 6 August 2021
 Yasmin Alibhai-Brown        (journalist, author) | |
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| Born | born 10 December 1949 Kampala, Uganda |
| Religion | Islam |
| Member of | British-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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References
- ↑ 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
- ↑ http://www.cardiff.ac.uk/jomec/contactsandpeople/honorary/alibhai-brown-yasmin.html
- ↑ http://www.newstatesman.com/200010230023
- ↑ http://www.epigram.org.uk/view.php?id=1245
- ↑ Document:Is this the Epicentre of Corbyn’s Antisemitism Story?
- ↑ "Muslims can learn from this new Jewish group", The Independent, 12 February 2007.
- ↑ "SI Leeds Literary Prize: Patrons" https://web.archive.org/web/20141113195227/http://sileedsliteraryprize.wordpress.com/patrons/, SI Leeds Literary Prize.
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