In the wake of the Second Gulf War in 1991, an Iraqi man, his Egyptian wife and their two teenage daughters had waited about one year before moving to Egypt. The eldest daughter, Nadine, was 12 years old at the time. Children to an Egyptian mother could not then obtain her nationality. Therefore, Yasmine and Nadine lived for about six years as two Iraqis in Egypt.

In the wake of the Second Gulf War in 1991, an Iraqi man, his Egyptian wife and their two teenage daughters had waited about one year before moving to Egypt. The eldest daughter, Nadine, was 12 years old at the time. Children to an Egyptian mother could not then obtain her nationality. Therefore, Yasmine and Nadine lived for about six years as two Iraqis in Egypt.

Nadine learned and used the Egyptian dialect when  dealing with people, but her own Iraqi accent exposed her origins, just like hundreds of Iraqis who immigrated to Egypt after the Second Gulf War. Nadine was a foreign student deprived of the privileges of Egyptian citizens at the time. Being a foreigner, she could not continue to play as a goalkeeper for the handball team, and she was refused admission to the Cairo Conservatoire to continue learning violin, which she had begun in Iraq. Therefore, she pursued her regular study until graduating from secondary school. After graduation, she went back to Iraq and returned again to Egypt as a refugee after the US invasion in 2003. Afterwards, she was granted the right to asylum in Sweden, where she completed her music studies and formed her own musical band as a Swedish citizen singing in Arabic to a mix of Arab and European music.