'I was very clear about what I wanted from a relationship: that my money is my money, and that I did not want to give up my life'
Yassmin Abdel-Magied is a writer and broadcaster best known for being Queenslander of the Year in 2015. The 31-year-old talks about her father, why most of her friends were boys as a teenager and why she thinks marriage is the most important relationship in life., Abdel-Salam, studied in communist East Germany, where my father, Midhat, was born in the 1950s. He returned to Sudan with his young family when my father was four.
Yassmin’s father encouraged her to study engineering: “His traditional masculinity didn’t mean I was told there was one way to be a woman, as he was always supportive of me studying science, maths and tech subjects.”is the product of a Sudanese generation of free education. Back then, everyone was highly educated and he was awarded a scholarship at Imperial College London, where he gained a PhD in electrical engineering.
“As soon as I got my driving licence I’d be like ‘Okay fellas, let’s go out’, and we’d hoon around for three hours.”, most of my friends were boys, partly because I liked cars. As soon as I got my driving licence I’d be like “Okay fellas, let’s go out”, and we’d hoon around for three hours. I helped the guys at university change gearboxes. We’d talk about their girlfriend problems.
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