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Yassmin Abdel-Magied

Abdel-Magied

Yassmin Abdel-Magied is a Sudanese-Australian author, engineer and social justice advocate.

As the Sudan war enters its fourth year with no end in sight, Yassmin Abdel-Magied explains why despair is not an option.

15 April, 2026

For the Sudanese diaspora, the war brings grief and fury in equal measure — Yassmin Abdel-Magied reflects on a pain that distance cannot ease.

10 November, 2025

The lack of debate surrounding the war in Sudan suggests that there is little global interest in the atrocities being committed, writes Yassmin Abdel-Magied.

11 April, 2025

Fairouz El-Higzi, dean of architecture at Sudan University of Sciences, managed to run courses against all odds. Yassmin Abdel-Magied tells us her aunt’s story.

06 January, 2025

Book Club: We speak to Abdelaziz Baraka Sakin about his novel 'Samahani' which explores the realities of slavery and power dynamics in 19th-century Zanzibar

02 October, 2024

Sudan's war worsens by the day: famine looms in Al-Fashir while the RSF threatens to partition Darfur. Yet the world is silent, writes Yassmin Abdel-Magied.

24 June, 2024

Sudan’s 2019 revolution that toppled Omar al-Bashir feels like a distant memory in the face of the current violent crisis that's displaced over a million people. The lack of global response makes it all the more painful, writes Yassmin Abdel-Magied.

02 June, 2023

Haitians and reparations activists have long highlighted the injustice by Western imperial powers following Haiti’s independence in 1804, but it seems to become ‘news’ only when platforms like the New York Times report on it, Yassmin Abdel-Magied.

30 May, 2022

Despite the BBC’s imperial history, the casting of Scottish-Rwandan actor Ncuti Gatwa as the next Doctor Who should be celebrated as a step in the right direction for addressing the long-standing absence of Black leads, writes Yassmin Abdel-Magied.

16 May, 2022

Following his purchase of Twitter, Elon Musk arrogantly thinks that he can ‘fix’ the platform and save democracy as we know it, but his history of undermining human rights and free speech, make him an unworthy candidate, writes Yassmin Abdel-Magied.

29 April, 2022