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词条 Randa Abdel-Fattah
释义

  1. Early life and education

  2. Career

  3. Personal life

  4. Bibliography

  5. References

  6. External links

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Randa Abdel-Fattah (born 6 June 1979)[1]{{citation needed|date=March 2019|reason= this is not a reference. you may as well put The Dictionary}} is an Australian Muslim writer of Palestinian and Egyptian parentage. Randa was born in Australia and her debut novel, Does My Head Look Big in This?, was published in 2005.

Early life and education

Abdel-Fattah was born in Sydney, New South Wales on 6 June 1979 of Palestinian and Egyptian heritage. She grew up in Melbourne, Victoria and attended a Catholic primary school and Islamic secondary college, obtaining an International Baccalaureate. She wrote her first "novel", based on Roald Dahl's Matilda, when she was in sixth grade. As a teenager, she wrote short stories and produced the first draft of Does My Head Look Big in This? at about the age of 18.

Abdel-Fattah studied a Bachelor of Arts and Bachelor of Law at the University of Melbourne. During this time, she was the Media Liaison Officer at the Islamic Council of Victoria, a role that afforded her the opportunity to write for newspapers and engage with media institutions about their representation of Muslims and Islam. She completed her PhD on Islamaphobia. Abdel-Fattah was a passionate human rights advocate and stood in the 1998 federal election as a member of the Unity Party (slogan: Say No to Pauline Hanson). She has also been deeply interested in inter-faith dialogue and has been a member of various inter-faith networks. Abdel-Fattah has also volunteered time with numerous human rights and migrant resource organisations, including: the Australian Arabic council, the Victorian Migrant Resource Centre, the Islamic Women's Welfare Council, the Palestine Human Rights Campaign, and the Asylum Seeker Resource Centre.[2]

Career

Abdel-Fattah is frequently sought for comment by the media on issues pertaining to Palestine, Islam or Australian Muslims. On Australian television, she has appeared on: Insight (SBS), First Tuesday Book Club (ABC), Q & A (ABC TV),[2] Sunrise (Seven Network) and 9am (Network Ten). She is a regular guest at schools around Australia addressing students about her books and the social justice issues they raise. She has been a guest at book festivals in Sweden (Gothenburg 2007; Lund's LitteraLund 2008) and Malaysia (Kuala Lumpur 2008). She has also toured in Brunei and the UK.

Abdel-Fattah describes herself as a feminist and has written critical pieces on the situation of women in Saudi Arabia. She maintains that women should retain the right to wear what they want.[3][4] She has stated that she refuses to discuss the veil anymore on the basis that it constitutes flogging a dead horse and detracts from the discussion of other issues.[4]

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"We are just so sick to death of talking about the veil, of Muslim women being defined in terms of their dress...We were really fed up with the discourse constantly focusing on Muslim women’s appearance..."


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Personal life

Abdel-Fattah resides in Sydney with her husband and four children.[2]

Bibliography

  • Does My Head Look Big in This? (2005)
  • Ten Things I Hate About Me (2006)
  • Where The Streets Had A Name (2008)
  • Noah's Law (2010)
  • The Friendship Matchmaker (2011)
  • The Friendship Matchmaker Goes Undercover (2012)
  • No Sex in the City (2012)
  • When Mina Met Michael (2016)

References

1. ^Contemporary Authors Online, Gale, 2009.
2. ^{{cite web|url=http://www.abc.net.au/tv/qanda/txt/s3055917.htm|title=Panelist: Randa Abdel-Fattah|work=Q&A|publisher=ABC TV|location=Australia|date=|accessdate=14 March 2015}}
3. ^{{cite web|url=http://www.abc.net.au/religion/articles/2013/04/29/3747543.htm|date=April 29, 2013 |title=Ending oppression in the Middle East: A Muslim feminist call to arms |first1=Randa |last1=Abdel-Fattah| access-date=March 11, 2019| publisher=ABC: Religion and Ethics}}
4. ^{{cite web|url=http://themusic.com.au/interviews/all/2015/03/06/randa-abdel-fattah|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150312093148/http://themusic.com.au/interviews/all/2015/03/06/randa-abdel-fattah/|archive-date=March 12, 2015|first1=Stephanie |last1=Liew |date=March 6, 2015 |title=Subtle Racism Is 'More Problematic' In Australia| publisher=The Music: Culture: Interviews |access-date=March 11, 2019}}

External links

  • Official Website
  • {{Twitter}}
  • Interview on Insideadog
  • Kathleen Mitchell Award
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11 : 1979 births|Australian lawyers|Australian children's writers|Australian people of Egyptian descent|Living people|Muslim writers|Australian people of Palestinian descent|Australian Muslims|Palestinian children's writers|Melbourne Law School alumni|Australian women children's writers

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