yasmin alrabiei
writer and researcher
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yasminalrabiei@gmail.com
london
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about
Yasmin Alrabiei is an Iraqi writer and researcher based in London. Her writing has been published in books including the Hajar Book or Rage by Hajar Press, and in articles in Atmos, WePresent, ICON, GQ, Dazed MENA and more.
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Her writing often explores the neural architecture of nostalgia and memory-building across distant geographies, treating memory as a sensory and narrative terrain. With a background in Neuroscience and Cognitive Science, her work bridges the worlds of scientific inquiry and cultural memory - challenging the Western, academic urge to ignore that intersection.
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Cose Journal Print Issue 03: Sink (Publishing November 2025)
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Dazed MENA Print Issue 02: Nightlife, Ritual, and Performance,
The Rise of Iraqi Gamer Girls
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ICON Magazine Print Issue 07: Unearthed, Are Our Icons Flattening Us?
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ICON Magazine Print Issue 06: Shadow Play, Soft Miracles: Jude Samman and the Grand Illusion of Home, and what it Feels like
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ICON Magazine Print Issue 05: Blank Canvas, My Name Is: The Power, Politics, and Poetry of our Names
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Atmos The Future of Cooling was Invented Thousands of Years Ago
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Dazed MENA Unpacking the kitsch cyber aesthetic of WhatsApp aunties greetings
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Dazed MENA Limbs of the Lunar Disc reimagines ancestral justice across collapsing timelines
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MILLE WORLD How Suez Studio Is Reviving the Artisanal Craft of Khayamiya
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digital
anthology and journal
The Hajar Book of Rage (elements 1 - fire)
Publishing 30th October 2025
Hajar Press
'The Preliminary Flame before a Kiss', my contribution to The Hajar Book of Rage, will appear in the first volume of Hajar Press’s elemental anthology series exploring fire, water, earth, and air. Preorders are now open through Waterstones and Amazon.