Yasmina Bellounar was born in 1988 in Oran, Algeria. She studied Islamic Studies and European Cultural Anthropology in Freiburg im Breisgau. She was part of various theatre projects in Istanbul, Oran and Stuttgart. Before working at Studio Я of the Maxim Gorki Theatre, she worked at a NGO in Algier, Algeria for a year. As a project assistant of the Studio Я, she is the co-curator of the Berlin Calling-Series.