Yasmin Alibhai-Brown
| Yasmin Alibhai-Brown | |
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| Born |
Yasmin Damji 10 December 1949 Kampala, Uganda |
| Nationality | British |
| Occupation | Journalist, author |
| Notable credit(s) | Independent and Evening Standard columnist |
| Children | 2 |
Yasmin Alibhai-Brown (née Damji; born 10 December 1949) is a British journalist and author, who describes herself as a "leftie liberal, anti-racist, feminist, Shia Muslim, part-Pakistani, and ... a very responsible person". Currently a regular columnist for The Independent and the London Evening Standard, she is a well-known commentator on issues relating to immigration, diversity and multiculturalism.
She is a founder member of British Muslims for Secular Democracy. She is also a patron of the SI Leeds Literary Prize.
Alibhai-Brown was born into the Ugandan Asian community in Kampala in 1949; her family belonged to the Nizari branch of the Shia Islamic faith, and she identifies as a Shia Muslim. Her mother was born in East Africa and her father moved there from British India in the 1920s.
After graduating in English literature from Makerere University in 1972, Alibhai-Brown left Uganda for Britain, along with her niece, Farah Damji, shortly before the expulsion of Ugandan Asians by Idi Amin, and completed a Master of Philosophy degree in literature at Linacre College, Oxford, in 1975. After working as a teacher, particularly with immigrants and refugees, she moved into journalism in her mid-thirties. She is married to Colin Brown, Chairman of the Consumer Services Panel of the Financial Services Authority; the couple have a daughter and Alibhai-Brown has a son from a previous marriage.
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