About Jasmine

Jasmine Aimaq was born in Germany to a Swedish mother and Afghan father. At age 4, she moved to Afghanistan with her parents and sister, and attended a French school in Kabul. They left the country in 1976, two years before the April Revolution. After some time in London and Hamburg, the family immigrated to the United States and settled in Los Angeles.

Jasmine obtained her BA from UCLA and her PhD in History from Lund University Sweden. Her focus was postwar international affairs. She has taught History and International Relations at USC, among other universities, and also had a career in nonprofit; she was director of Press and Corporate Relations at the Pacific Council on International Policy, and Deputy Executive Director at Global Green USA, Mikhail Gorbachev’s environmental and arms control movement. She divides her time between British Columbia and California. The Opium Prince is her first novel.