Yasmin Alibhai-Brown is a British journalist and author.
14 Facts About Yasmin Alibhai-Brown
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Yasmin Alibhai-Brown is a founding member of British Muslims for Secular Democracy.
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Yasmin Alibhai-Brown is a patron of the SI Leeds Literary Prize.
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Yasmin Alibhai-Brown's family belonged to the Nizari Ismaili branch of the Shia Islamic faith, and she regards herself as a Shia Muslim.
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Yasmin Alibhai-Brown's mother was born in East Africa and her father moved there from British India in the 1920s.
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Yasmin Alibhai-Brown is married to Colin Brown, former chairman of the Consumer Services Panel of the Financial Services Authority.
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The couple have a daughter, and Yasmin Alibhai-Brown has a son from a previous marriage.
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Yasmin Alibhai-Brown has written for The Guardian, The Observer, The New York Times, Time magazine, Newsweek, and the Daily Mail, and has appeared on the current affairs TV shows Dateline London and The Wright Stuff.
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Yasmin Alibhai-Brown has won awards for her journalism, including Media Personality of the Year in 2000, the George Orwell Prize for Political Journalism in 2002, and the EMMA Award for Journalism in 2004.
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Yasmin Alibhai-Brown was a research fellow at the Institute for Public Policy Research, a think tank associated with New Labour, from 1996 to 2001.
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Yasmin Alibhai-Brown ended her connection with the Labour Party over the 2003 war in Iraq and other issues, and supported the Liberal Democrats in the 2005 and 2010 general elections.
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Yasmin Alibhai-Brown is senior research associate at the Foreign Policy Centre, an honorary fellow at Liverpool John Moores University, and honorary visiting professor at Cardiff and Lincoln Universities.
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Yasmin Alibhai-Brown wrote that her decision had been made partly in a growing spirit of republicanism and partly in protest at the Labour government, particularly its conduct of the war in Iraq, and she has since criticised the British honours system as "beyond repair".
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In 2016, Yasmin Alibhai-Brown won the Columnist of the Year Broadsheet at the British Press Awards.