This event is part of Conversations at the Kiln, an event series at Kiln Theatre programmed by Intelligence Squared. To see the full line-up click here.

Writer, broadcaster, and award-winning social advocate Yassmin Abdel-Magied has long challenged how we see the world. Since founding Youth Without Borders at the age of sixteen, a youth-led initiative focused on empowering young people to enact positive change in their communities, she has become a leading public voice on justice, identity, and storytelling. Her TED Talk, ‘What Does My Headscarf Mean to You?,’ has been viewed more than 2.5 million times and was named one of TED’s Top Ten Ideas of 2015.

On May 26, she joins us in person to discuss her debut novel for adults, At Sea. Drawing on her own time working as an engineer on offshore oil rigs, she traces one woman’s struggle to survive an impending natural catastrophe all whilst negotiating the fraught dynamics of power, gender and ambition so entrenched in the world of Big Oil and the world of work more broadly.

Join us live at the Kiln Theatre for this rare opportunity to hear Abdel-Magied speak and ask your questions in the audience  Q&A.

If you require access seats, please choose ‘concession’ and email us at info@intelligencesquared.com with your access needs so we can seat you accordingly