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Randa Abdel-Fattah Randa Abdel-Fattah i(A90134 works by)
Born: Established: 1979 Sydney, New South Wales, ;
Gender: Female
Heritage: Palestinian ; Egyptian
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1 y separately published work icon The Very Best Doughnut Randa Abdel-Fattah , Sydney : Pan Macmillan Australia , 2022 25310244 2022 single work children's fiction children's

'Friday is always the best day at Adam's house. It's doughnut day!

'But this week, his family is fasting for Ramadan. They aren't going to eat or drink until the sun sets.

'Adam wants to fast too, but it's so hard. Can he wait that long for his very special doughnut?' (Publication summary)

1 y separately published work icon 11 Words for Love Randa Abdel-Fattah , Maxine Beneba Clarke (illustrator), Sydney : Lothian , 2022 24800992 2022 single work picture book children's

'There are eleven words for love, and my family knows them all.

'A family flees their homeland to find safety in another country, carrying little more than a suitcase full of love.

'As their journey unfolds, the oldest child narrates 11 meanings for love in Arabic as her family show, and are shown, all different kinds of love in their new home, and they also remember the love they have for their homeland and for those left behind or lost along the way.

'In the Arabic language, there are over 50 words describing the degrees of love. That's 50 stories, 50 life-worlds. This lyrical and heartwarming book takes you on a journey through 11 of these Arabic expressions for love.' (Publication summary)

1 y separately published work icon Maku Meyne Wyatt , Randa Abdel-Fattah , Sydney : Pan Macmillan Australia , 2022 23667798 2022 single work children's fiction children's

'Maku loves watching movies - it's his favourite thing in the world to do. He especially loves the ones about awesome superheroes saving the day. Maku's second most favourite thing to do is camping and going bush with his Nan and Pop.' (Publication summary)

1 y separately published work icon When Granny Came To Stay Alice Pung , Randa Abdel-Fattah (editor), Sydney : Pan Macmillan Australia , 2022 23667583 2022 single work children's fiction children's

'OUR STORIES is a funny, relatable and engaging new early-chapter book series that celebrates Australia's multicultural society with authors and illustrators from a diverse range of backgrounds. Everything changes when Granny comes to stay. She doesn't drive, she cooks strange foods, and she thinks Destroyer Discs are just toys! But when Granny finally leaves, will things go back to the way they were?' (Publication summary)

1 4 y separately published work icon Coming of Age in the War on Terror Randa Abdel-Fattah , Sydney : NewSouth Publishing , 2021 22985674 2021 multi chapter work criticism

'"One minute you're a 15-year old girl who loves Netflix and music and the next minute you're looked at as maybe ISIS."

'The generation born at the time of the 9/11 attacks are turning 18. What has our changed world meant for them?

'We now have a generation – Muslim and non-Muslim – who have grown up only knowing a world at war on terror. These young people have been socialised in a climate of widespread Islamophobia, surveillance and suspicion. An unparalleled security apparatus around terrorism has grown alongside fears over young people's radicalisation and the introduction into schools and minority communities of various government-led initiatives to counter violent extremism.

'In Coming of Age in the War on Terror Randa Abdel-Fattah, a leading scholar and popular writer, interrogates the impact of all this on young people's trust towards adults and the societies they live in and their political consciousness. Drawing on local interviews but global in scope, this book is the first to examine the lives of a generation for whom the rise of the far-right, the discourse of Trump and Brexit and the growing polarisation of politics seems normal in the long aftermath of 9/11. It's about time we hear what they have to say.'

Source: Publisher's blurb.

1 Seventy-One Years of Words Randa Abdel-Fattah , 2019 single work autobiography
— Appears in: Arab, Australian, Other : Stories on Race and Identity 2019; (p. 249-258)
1 Introduction Randa Abdel-Fattah , Sara Saleh , 2019 single work autobiography
— Appears in: Arab, Australian, Other : Stories on Race and Identity 2019; (p. 1-6)
1 3 y separately published work icon Arab, Australian, Other : Stories on Race and Identity Randa Abdel-Fattah (editor), Sara Saleh (editor), Sydney : Pan Macmillan Australia , 2019 16879054 2019 anthology autobiography

'Although there are 22 separate Arab nationalities representing an enormous variety of cultural backgrounds and experiences, the portrayal of Arabs in Australia tends to range from homogenising (at best) to racist pop-culture caricatures.

'Edited by award-winning author and academic Randa Abdel-Fattah, and activist and poet Sara Saleh, and featuring contributors Michael Mohammed Ahmad, Ruby Hamad and Paula Abood, among many others, this collection explores the experience of living as a member of the Arab diaspora in Australia and includes stories of family, ethnicity, history, isolation, belonging and identity.'  (Publication summary)

1 1 form y separately published work icon Does My Head Look Big in This? Randa Abdel-Fattah , David Curzon , Australia : Swing Wing , 2019 10434130 2019 single work film/TV
1 Pumpkin Seeds, Angry Minorities and Race : The Moral Contortions of Multiculturalism Randa Abdel-Fattah , 2018 single work prose
— Appears in: Griffith Review , no. 61 2018; (p. 84-91)

'During my doctoral fieldwork researching Islamophobia from the point of view of the ‘Islamophobes’, I spent many weekends in the town of Bayside on the Central Coast of New South Wales, where my parents had bought a holiday house. I had detected that Bayside’s unmistakable Anglo-Australian majority population was ‘disrupted’ in the holiday season and long weekends when many ethnic and religious minorities from Western Sydney descended on the town. Among the crowds was a highly visible and growing Lebanese Muslim tourist population. One evening I was walking with my father when a car slowed down beside us. One of its occupants, a young Anglo guy, leant out of the window, yelled, ‘Go back home you bunch of pumpkin seeds!’ and promptly sped off.' (Introduction)

1 Tram 19 Rebels Randa Abdel-Fattah , 2018 single work short story
— Appears in: Meanjin , Winter vol. 77 no. 2 2018; (p. 34-39)

'We were waiting at the tram stop on Sydney Road when the traffic light turned red. An old bottle-green Corolla stopped in front of us, a bunch of white guys inside. ‘Informer’ was blasting from their stereo system. I stifled a groan. One of them leant out of the car window, staring straight ahead at us. He locked eyes with Elif, who was standing beside me.' (Introduction)

2 4 y separately published work icon When Michael Met Mina Randa Abdel-Fattah , Sydney : Pan Macmillan Australia , 2016 9625788 2016 single work novel

'A boy. A girl. Two families. One great divide.

When Michael meets Mina, they are at a rally for refugees - standing on opposite sides. Mina fled Afghanistan with her mother via a refugee camp, a leaky boat and a detention centre. Michael's parents have founded a new political party called Aussie Values. They want to stop the boats. Mina wants to stop the hate. When Mina wins a scholarship to Michael's private school, their lives crash together blindingly. A novel for anyone who wants to fight for love, and against injustice' (Pan Macmillan).

1 The Feverish Desire to Possess Randa Abdel-Fattah , 2016 single work autobiography
— Appears in: The Book That Made Me 2016;
1 Unstick Your Face Randa Abdel-Fattah , 2015 single work children's fiction
— Appears in: Laugh Your Head Off : Funny Stories for All Kinds of Kids 2015;
1 The Road to Self-Acceptance is Paved with Tim Tams Randa Abdel-Fattah , 2014 single work autobiography
— Appears in: Coming of Age : Growing Up Muslim in Australia 2014; (p. 55-67)
1 1 y separately published work icon Rania : This Is the Book of You Randa Abdel-Fattah , Parkside : Omnibus Books , 2013 Z1918181 2013 single work children's fiction children's
1 3 y separately published work icon Jodie : This is the Book of You Randa Abdel-Fattah , Parkside : Omnibus Books , 2013 Z1918178 2013 single work children's fiction children's

Best friends Jodie, Rania and Deyana can't believe what they have found in the school library - a mysterious book that writes itself, just for them. Jodie's life is difficult enough - her father is in a new relationship and she's trying to get used to having a step-sister. The advice the book is giving her is so confusing. Who is the ghostly writer? What does she want? (Source: Bookseller's website)

1 y separately published work icon Book of You Randa Abdel-Fattah , Parkside : Omnibus Books , 2013 17338258 2013 series - author novel
1 [Essay] : Nine Parts of Desire [Essay] : Nine Parts of Desire 1; [Essay] : 9 Parts of Desire 1; [Essay] : 9 Parts of Desire One; [Essay] : Nine Parts of Desire One Randa Abdel-Fattah , 2013 single work essay
— Appears in: Reading Australia 2013-;

‘The daily life of Muslim women.’ ‘An understanding of the women behind the veils.’ ‘A compelling insight into women in the Muslim world.’ This is what the blurb of Nine Parts of Desire: The Hidden World of Islamic Women promises the reader.' (Introduction)

1 For Democratic Society to Flourish, Free Speech Must be Upheld Randa Abdel-Fattah , 2012 single work column
— Appears in: Sydney Pen Magazine , November 2012; (p. 8-12)
'This essay by author and lawyer Randa Abdel-Fattah, presented in Sydney at the special event to mark The Day of the Imprisoned Writer, is the third in Sydney PEN's 'Free Voices' lecture and essay program, running from 2012 to 2014 using funds granted by Copyright Agency Limited. The program is designed to build public awareness and concern about freedom of expression, and to galvanise a larger, broader demographic of supporters who will challenge human rights abuses and stand up for the freedom to write and read. It offers new and established writers the opportu - nity to raise or utilise their profile and express their commitment to freedom of expression in a contemporary context.' (8)
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