Yasmine Al Massri

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Place of Birth: Beirut, Lebanon

Date of Birth: November 21, 1978

Ethnicity:
*Palestinian (father)
*Egyptian (mother)

Yasmine Al Massri is a Lebanese-American actress, dancer, video artist, and human rights advocate.

Yasmine was born in Beirut, Lebanon, to a Palestinian father and an Egyptian mother. She moved to Paris, France, before immigrating to the U.S. Yasmine has both U.S. and French citizenship. She has stated:

Although I come from a family who are Muslim — my mother is Egyptian, my father is Palestinian – my mother only puts a veil on her head when she has a bad hair day.

Source: http://www.glamour.com