Yasmin Alibhai-Brown is a British-East African Asian journalist and author. In 2001, she was appointed a member of the Order of the British Empire (MBE) for her services in journalism; however, she returned her MBE in 2003 due to Benjamin Zephaniah’s stance on the word empire.

In 2005, Yasmin performed her autobiographical one-woman show Tales of an Extravagant Stranger at the Soho Theatre. In 2006, Yasmin co-founded the charity, British Muslims for Secular Democracy. She also won the Columnist of the Year Broadsheet at the British Press Awards in 2016 and received the “Outstanding Contribution to Media Award” at the Asian Media Awards in 2017. 

Yasmin’s report “The Inner Lives of Troubled Young Muslims” was published in November 2020. Her recent books include Refusing the Veil, Exotic England: The Making of a Curious Nation, In Defence of Political Correctness, and Ladies Who Punch. Yasmin was twice voted the 10th most influential Asian in Britain and was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature in 2022.