# Bilan Osman

> Bilan Osman (born 1992): Swedish-Somali journalist, columnist and anti-racism educator.

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## Who is she?

Bilan Osman is a Swedish journalist, opinion columnist and anti-racism activist born in Gothenburg in 1992 to parents from Somalia ([Wikipedia, Bilan Osman](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bilan_Osman)). Her paternal grandfather, Nor Osman, was a poet (same source). See [Somalis in Sweden](/en/diaspora/sweden/).

## Work

She has been a columnist for *Svenska Dagbladet* (2018 to 2019) and *Expressen* ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bilan_Osman)). From 2013, for eight years, she worked as a travelling educator for the anti-racism Expo foundation (same source). She has contributed to several anthologies, including *Svart kvinna* (2015) (same source).

In 2013 she co-signed an open letter urging Muslim women in Sweden to wear the veil for a day in solidarity with a woman attacked for her hijab (same source). Her writing on race and the far right has drawn both support and criticism (same source).

## Honours

In 2014 she received the ELSA Award from the Swedish Committee Against Antisemitism, and in 2020 she was nominated for a Rising Star award by the Swedish Magazine Publishers Association ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bilan_Osman)).

## In short

A Gothenburg-born journalist who writes and teaches about racism in Sweden.

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