Having worked in the Middle East for several years, Yasmina moved to Cairo in 1995.   Redirecting her style to modern Egyptian with the help of world-class trainers Raqia Hassan and Ibrahim Akef, she quickly secured a contract at the Meridien Heliopolis, where she performed for a total of three years. Yasmina has remained in Cairo ever since, appearing with her orchestra at major Cairo venues such as Safir, Pyramisa and the Semiramis Intercontinental hotels, the Nile Maxime, Tivoli Heliopolis, as well as hundreds of weddings and parties in Cairo and around Egypt.

For the past six years Yasmina has travelled to teach at workshops and festivals world-wide, and continues to perform and to study the dance, firmly believing that “it is an ongoing journey of discovery from which you never stop learning.”

In 2002 she gave birth to her son, Azzedine, and has widened her cultural understanding of Egypt by coming full-circle and incorporating her original training into her life; she works as a photo-journalist in Cairo and writes regularly for several Egyptian and foreign publications.