Yassmin Abdel-Magied

Yassmin Abdel-Magied is a Sudanese-Australian writer, broadcaster and award-winning social advocate. Abdel-Magied trained as a mechanical engineer before becoming a full-time writer and broadcaster in 2016. She published her debut memoir, Abdel-Magied’s Story, with Penguin Random House at age 24, and followed up with her first fiction book for younger readers, You Must Be Layla, in 2019. Abdel-Magied’s critically acclaimed essays have been published in numerous anthologies, including the best-selling It’s Not About the Burqa and The New Daughters of Africa. After hosting the internationally released documentary, The Truth About Racism, she created Hijabistas, a series looking at the modest fashion scene in Australia. Abdel-Magied is also a regular contributor to the BBC, the popular Guilty Feminist podcast and media outlets and literary festivals around the world.