About Samina Yasmeen
Born 1950. Samina Yasmeen is an Australian and Pakistani academic.
Samina Yasmeen is an Australian–Pakistani author and intellectual who is known for her work in political and strategic development in South Asia and the role of Islam in world politics.
Samina Yasmeen is from a literary family in Pakistan. Her mother Begum Sarfraz Iqbal was a prominent littérateur of Pakistan, and a road in Islamabad, the capital of Pakistan is named after her in recognition of her contribution to literature.
She was appointed to the Council for Multicultural Australia in August 2011.
In 2014, her book, Muslim Citizens in the West, was published. One year later, it was reviewed by the Journal of Islamic Studies.
Yasmeen is married to an Australian engineer, James Trevelyan. Fellow of Australian Institute of International Affairs (2012)
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Australian academic
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Samina Yasmeen was born in 1950 in Pakistan.
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