CLIPPINGS

A selection of press clippings.


2022

Books + Publishing: CBCA 2022 Notable Books announced

The New Arab: Muslim women on how they’re breaking the bias this International Women’s Day

Africa Access: Listen, Layla review

2021

Guardian: Yassmin Abdel-Magied performs a new poem ahead of Guardian Australia's Book Club

Kirkus Reviews: Listen, Layla: A rich multicultural narrative

The New Arab: Listen, Layla: Coming-of-age as an African diasporic Muslim

Guardian: Report shows fourfold rise in minority ethnic characters in UK children’s books

Guardian: Guardian Australia’s Book Club: join us to celebrate the inaugural Australian Poetry Month

The Sydney Morning Herald: Yassmin Abdel-Magied: ‘I like finding pieces that have a bit of a story’

The Guardian: BBC under fire over 'strikingly hostile' interview of Muslim Council of Britain head

Books + Publishing: PRH acquires Abdel-Magied nonfiction book

Book Trust: Great Books Guide: For 10 to 11 year olds

The New Arab: The newsletters by women of colour that are making emails exciting again

Paperback snob: Listen, Layla book review

2ser book club: Listen, Layla book review (podcast)

School Library Journal: Listen Layla Starred Review

2020

Metro UK: Mechanical engineer working on oil rigs becomes an activist and storyteller to make the world a fairer, safer place

IMDB News: Goalpost Pictures options Yassmin Abdel-Magied novels

Conde Nast Traveller: Traveller’s Tales (video)

New Statesman: The Best New Children’s Books for Now

Guardian: Children’s and teens roundup – the best new picture books and novels

iNews: 30 books for families to enjoy

ABC: After Harry Potter: Five children's books that celebrate diversity

Books + Publishing: Writers awarded OzCo international residencies for 2020–21

The Arts Desk: United Queendom, Kensington Palace review - rollicking royal tale

The Stage: United Queendom Review - an immersive history lesson

LoveReading: View on ‘You Must Be Layla’

2019

Bustle: Why Australia's "Most Hated Muslim" Turned To YA Fiction To Heal

Metro UK: Sudanese-Australian writer uses fiction to work through the trauma of Islamophobia

Middle East Eye: The best YA books: 10 Middle East authors worth reading

ABC Radio National: Yassmin Abdel-Magied turns to fiction to process public backlash with novel You Must Be Layla

Reform The Funk: How Writer And Broadcaster Yassmin Abdel-Magied Is Representing Empowered Muslim Women

SBS: Yassmin Abdel-Magied: “I never thought I would be a fiction writer”

Metro UK: Muslims Who Fast: Yassmin shows us a ‘Sudanese-Australian combination iftar’

Sydney Morning Herald: New voices in young-adult fiction reviews

2018

The Feed SBS: Marc Meets Yassmin Abdel-Magied

The New Arab: ‘I came to heal’ - Yassmin Abdel-Magied on starting again in London

Girlboss: This Is The Imaginary Female-Run Government The World Needs Right Now

2017

Salon: The many identities of the digital-age activist Yassmin Abdel-Magied

Cheek Magazine: Yassmin Abdel Magied, la militante féministe passionnée de Formule 1

BE Collective Cultures: Yassmin Abdel-Magied is a Boss

BBC: The Anzac post, outrage, and a debate about race

Sydney Morning Herald: Yassmin Abdel-Magied on becoming 'Australia's most publicly hated Muslim'

2011

Sydney Morning Herald: Fired up to be the first female, Muslim F1 driver