announced Abdel-Magied as a recipient of a international development writing grant and a six-month residency at the Keesing Studio in Paris. In May 2022, she published a collection of essays entitled Talking About a Revolution. It is divided into two sections, The Private and Public Self, and Systems and Society, with all of the writings linked by a broad interpretation of the term "revolution". She spoke about the book in conversation with Sisonke Msimang via live video at the Sydney Writers Festival on 21 May, and also appeared on ABC News Breakfast. In one of the essays, she writes about considering giving up her Australian citizenship, partly because she has "a real issue with the broader system of borders and citizenship and the way that inequality is baked into the nation-state"; she wanted to provoke reflection on the question "what does it mean to have an Australian citizenship?". She said she had built a life in London that she was happy with. Works Blog. Story in a collection. Biography. (reprinted on The Guardian website on 6 July 2017) Edited version of a speech given at the Melbourne Writers Festival. YA Fiction. References Further reading – Context of the Q&A Sharia remarks (full video here: ). – Discussion about the role of "active citizenship" sparked by the Anzac Day post. External links 1991 births Australian mechanical engineers Australian women writers Australian memoirists Australian Muslims Australian expatriates in the United Kingdom Australian women engineers 21st-century women engineers Living people Writers from Khartoum Proponents of Islamic feminism Sudanese emigrants to Australia University of Queensland alumni 21st-century memoirists People educated at John Paul College (Brisbane)