Yasmine Mosimann

About

Yasmine Mosimann is a multimedia journalist with extensive experience covering the Middle East. She is currently an editor on AFP’s Middle East and North Africa English desk – guiding the wire service's coverage of the region spanning from Iran to Morocco.She was previously based in Iraq (Baghdad and Erbil) for over three years, reporting on the country as a freelance journalist for The New York Times, the Associated Press, The World from PRX, France 24, and others. She was also an editor at Iraq’s largest English language media outlet Rudaw English in Erbil, where she oversaw a desk covering Iraq, Syria, Turkey, and Iran.Yasmine studied World Islamic and Middle Eastern Studies & African Studies at McGill University in Montreal, Canada. She was Features Editor at The McGill Daily.She is a member of the Overseas Press Club of America (OPC) and Arab and Middle Eastern Journalists Association (AMEJA). She is Hostile Environment and Emergency First Aid Training (HEFAT) certified.