Yasmine Allas is a Somali-Dutch actress and writer.
17 Facts About Yasmine Allas
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Yasmine Allas's family was wealthy, with her father serving as a General in the Somali army.
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Yasmine Allas was killed in 1977, when she was still a child.
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Yasmine Allas attended a local private school, where she learned Italian and English.
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Yasmine Allas subsequently moved to Belgium and then the Netherlands in 1987.
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Yasmine Allas met her Dutch husband, with whom she has a daughter.
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Yasmine Allas began her acting career in the late 1980s in Amsterdam, performing with The Trust theater group.
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Yasmine Allas worked a number of years as an actress with the Dutch director Theu Boermans.
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Yasmine Allas likewise performed with various ensembles, and had her own solo show.
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In 1998, Yasmine Allas wrote her first novel Idil, A Girl, which was a critical success.
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Yasmine Allas followed that with 2001's The General with Six Fingers.
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Two years later, Yasmine Allas launched Uprooted but Still Home, an essay collection on her own background and beliefs and dealing with Dutch culture.
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Additionally, Yasmine Allas wrote Hommel, a short story prepared for the MatchBoox art books company.
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Yasmine Allas has likewise written for the Volkskrant, one of the Netherlands' leading newspapers.
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Yasmine Allas is a member of the Marhaba Organisation, an Islamic socio-cultural foundation with a focus on strengthening bonds between local communities.
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Yasmine Allas is a member of the Women's Islamic Initiative in Spirituality and Equality, a global program, social network and grassroots social justice movement led by Muslim women.
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Yasmine Allas is a part of the Global Experts group of professional analysts, with media and female rights in North Africa, the Middle East and Europe as her area of expertise.