1. Yassmin Abdel-Magied was named Young Queenslander of the Year in 2010 and Queensland Australian of the Year in 2015 for her engagement in community work.
20 Facts About Yassmin Abdel-Magied
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Yassmin Abdel-Magied's mother, Faiza El-Higzi, was a qualified architect in Sudan, and now holds postgraduate degrees across various disciplines.
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In November 2019, Yassmin Abdel-Magied announced her engagement with a photo of her diamond ring on Instagram.
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Yassmin 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.
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Yassmin Abdel-Magied studied mechanical engineering at the University of Queensland, graduating with a Bachelor of Mechanical Engineering with First-Class Honours in 2011.
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In 2013, Yassmin Abdel-Magied wrote a journal article about working "On the rigs" in the Griffith Review.
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In 2015, Yassmin Abdel-Magied contributed as a member of the Federal ANZAC Centenary Commemoration Youth Working Group.
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From August 2016 to 1 July 2017, Yassmin Abdel-Magied presented ABC TV human-interest show Australia Wide until the show was cancelled due to ABC program restructuring.
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On 3 July 2017, Yassmin Abdel-Magied announced in a tweet that she was moving to London, "to partake in the Aussie rite of passage".
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Yassmin Abdel-Magied was subjected to daily death threats on social media as well as abusive telephone calls, forcing her to change her phone number, move house and delete social media accounts.
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Yassmin Abdel-Magied later said that she had become "Australia's most publicly hated Muslim".
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In May 2022 in a London interview, Yassmin Abdel-Magied described how she remained traumatised by the abuse, and that she would not be returning to Australia.
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Yassmin Abdel-Magied reported that his interviewees who were people of colour all reported experience of or a fear of "getting Yassmined", and drew comparison with the Adam Goodes controversy in 2015.
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In 2018, Yassmin Abdel-Magied presented six six-minute episodes of an Islamic headwear fashion program on ABC iview.
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Yassmin Abdel-Magied played a character described as "a conceited social media lifestyle guru".
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On 23 April 2018, Yassmin Abdel-Magied appeared on the UK-based podcast The Guilty Feminist on the topic of identity.
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At the Melbourne Writers Festival in August 2018, Yassmin Abdel-Magied spoke of the grief she felt, for the loss of both her engineering career as well as her youthful optimism and innocence.
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Yassmin Abdel-Magied is a contributor to Margaret Busby's 2019 anthology New Daughters of Africa, and has participated in associated events in London.
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Yassmin Abdel-Magied spoke of the additional freedom afforded by fiction in expressing themes important to her.
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Yassmin Abdel-Magied said she had built a life in London that she was happy with.