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Sara Yasin

Palestinian-American blogger raised on a steady diet of fried chicken, hummus and cynicism

Sara Yasin is a Palestinian-American born and raised in the south of the United States. She graduated from North Carolina State University in 2009, and moved to London to study Gender, Development and Globalisation at the LSE's Gender Institute. Previously, she has been a regular contributor to Muslimah Media Watch and a programme assistant for the Violence is Not Our Culture campaign with Women Living Under Muslim Laws. She is currently an editorial assistant for
Index. She mostly writes about identity, Islam, feminism, multiculturalism, and free expression. Her work has been previously featured in Muslimah Media Watch, Times Higher Education Magazine, Ms. Magazine Blog, Jezebel, Racialicious, and the Guardian's Comment is free. She tweets form @missyasin.

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