‘YOU’RE WORKING ON the rigs?’ one of the drillers from my camp asked, his voice heavy with surprise. ‘We assumed you were just with the camp. Respect hey, that’s awesome, we love having chicks...

When this essay was reprinted on The Guardian website on 6 July 2017, the writer added the short introduction below in order to give the piece context. We’ve reproduced it here in order to illustrate...

I’D LIKE TO believe that I wasn’t jumping on the bandwagon. But don’t we all tell ourselves little white lies to keep our self-worth intact? It was November 2017. I was jolted awake by the rousing...

Including new chapters. Frank, fearless, funny, articulate and inspiring, Yassmin Abdel-Magied is a dynamo, a young Muslim dynamo offering a bracing breath of fresh air – and hope.

With her long skirt and headscarf Layla certainly stands out at her new high school. Everyone thinks they know her, just from a glance. But do they? And does Layla really know herself?

It's Not About the Burqa is an anthology of essays by Muslim women about the contemporary Muslim female experience.

The companion to the classic anthology Daughters of Africa—a major international collection that brings together the work of more than 200 women writers of...

Ma’ab’s death has made me ask what role I can play in the protests as part of the diaspora, says Yassmin Abdel-Magied, a social advocate working in Australia