Yassmin Abdel-Magied
- January 5, 2024
- Writer
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Yassmin Abdel-Magied Biography
| Name | Yassmin Abdel-Magied |
| Birthday | Mar 3 |
| Birth Year | 1991 |
| Place Of Birth | Khartoum |
| Birth Country | Australia |
| Birth Sign | Aries |
| Parents | Midhat Abdel-Magied, Faiza El Higzi |
Yassmin Abdel-Magied is one of the most popular and richest Writer who was born on March 3, 1991 in Khartoum, Australia. Yassmin Abdel- Magied (born 1991) is an expatriate Sudanese-Australian media presenter and writer, who had an early career as a mechanical engineer. She was named Young Queenslander of the year in 2010 and Queensland Australian of the Year in 2015 for her engagement in community work. Abdel-Magied has been based in the United Kingdom since 2017, after her comments about Sharia law on TV and a social media post on Anzac Day led to her being widely attacked in Australian media, a petition calling for her sacking from ABC TV, and numerous death threats on social media.
From 2012 until 2016, she worked for multinational engineering companies based in Australia. In 2013, Abdel-Magied wrote a journal article about working “On the rigs” in the Griffith Review.
In December 2014, Abdel-Magied presented a fourteen-minute TED talk at TEDxSouthBank in Brisbane, entitled What does my headscarf mean to you?, which was chosen as one of TED’s top ten ideas of 2015.
After Abdel-Magied was named Queensland Young Australian of the Year in 2015, Australian Foreign Affairs Minister Julie Bishop appointed her to the Council for Australian-Arab Relations (CAAR). In late 2016, the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade (DFAT) sent Abdel-Magied, as a CAAR board member, to several Middle Eastern countries, including Saudi Arabia, the UAE, Jordan, Egypt and Sudan, to promote Australia.
Abdel-Magied attended primary school at the Islamic College of Brisbane and the independent Christian high school John Paul College, at which there was no policy against wearing a hijab. She studied mechanical engineering at the University of Queensland, graduating with a Bachelor of Mechanical Engineering with First-Class Honours in 2011.
Yassmin Abdel-Magied Net Worth
| Net Worth | $5 Million |
| Source Of Income | Writer |
| House | Living in own house. |
Yassmin Abdel-Magied is one of the richest Writer from Australia. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Yassmin Abdel-Magied 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)
Yassmin Midhat Abdel-Magied was born in Khartoum, Sudan. As skilled migrants, her parents moved to Brisbane, Australia with her when aged 18 months in late
- This was after the 1989 Sudanese coup d’état in which the Islamist military toppled the democratically elected government and brought in harsh laws, such as the policing of women’s clothing and mandating the speaking and teaching of Arabic in universities. Abdel-Magied holds dual Australian and Sudanese nationality.
As high school students in 2007, Abdel-Magied and two others founded “Youth Without Borders” (YWB) in Australia, and she continued as chairperson until
- In 2007, she was named Young Australian Muslim of the Year. She also participated in other groups/committees and was named Young Queenslander of the Year (2010)
Other commentators said that she had been the victim of “character assassination”, Islamophobia and her feminism. Susan Carland likened the media frenzy after the Q&A incident to a witch-hunt, saying that The Australian ran four front pages as well as 26 editorials and opinion pieces, and every major news site in the country had run at least one piece on it. The Murdoch-owned Newscorp media had been particularly vicious in their attacks. Randa Abdel- Fattah wrote “Abdel-Magied has come to represent everything that Islamophobia hates – but actually loves – about ‘the Muslim problem’ “, and that her critics would have preferred her to stay in Australia.
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On 3 July 2017, Abdel-Magied announced in a tweet that she was moving to London, “to partake in the Aussie rite of passage”. She did not specify her reasons for leaving, but after arriving in London said that it had been “exhausting” to have been the subject of controversy and that she had felt betrayed by her home country, after criticism aimed at her had been “visceral” and “more about who I am than about what is said”.
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In February 2017, Abdel-Magied was a panelist on the Q&A program where she was challenged about her views on Sharia law by politician Jacqui Lambie. Abdel- Magied said “Islam to me is the most feminist religion. We got equal rights well before the Europeans. We don’t take our husbands’ last names because we ain’t their property.” She said that Sharia law is as simple as “me praying five times day,” and that it says that “you follow the law of the land on which you are on”. A right-wing group called “AltCon News” started an online petition after the show, calling for Abdel-Magied to be sacked from hosting the ABC TV show Australia Wide for what they saw as her “pro-Sharia law comments”. The petition received more than 15, 000 signatures.