In a career spanning over forty years, Yasmina has experienced multiple levels
of working as a professional dancer. Beginning her training in the 1980’s with
renowned teachers and musicians including Suraya Hilal and Hossam Ramzy,
she went on to perform in the thriving Arabic, Turkish and Greek nightclubs of
London, with musicians from Cairo, learning to express the music live on stage.
A year-long stint in Italy and then six months in Casablanca Morocco was
followed by several years touring the Middle East on back-to-back hotel
contracts for Lebanese impresario Toros Siranossian in Dubai, Abu Dhabi,
Bahrain, Jordan and Syria, before finally arriving in Cairo in 1995.

Here Yasmina retrained with choreographers Ibrahim Akef and Raqia Hassan,
learning contemporary Egyptian style. Her first contract was at the Meridien
Heliopolis, where she remained for nearly two years, before moving to the Nile
Maxim. She also performed regularly at the Semiramis, Safir, Pyramisa, Tivoli
Heliopolis and other nightclubs, as well as hundreds of weddings and parties
around Cairo and elsewhere in Egypt, for a period of eight years.
Yasmina’s teaching career began back in 1999 when she began teaching
workshops worldwide. Over the past twenty five years she has performed and
taught, sometimes multiple times, in the US (New York, Miami, Las Vegas),
Australia (Sydney, Melbourne, Brisbane, Perth, Tasmania) Japan (Tokyo, Osaka,
Nagoya), South Africa (Cape Town, Durban), Bali, Fiji, Finland, Denmark,
Estonia, Switzerland, France, Belgium, Germany, Spain, Bulgaria, Hungary, and
the UK. She has toured with her live band from Cairo in the UK and Australia,
and choreographed several theatre shows for various dance ensembles, both
in the UK and South Africa.

Since 2019 Yasmina has been dividing her time increasingly between Cairo and
the UK, where she is co-director of Bellydance Now, a dance organization that
offers dancers both in and outside the UK multiple ways to engage through
performance, training, courses about the music, history, and culture of the
dance, and travel to Egypt.