Randa Abdel-Fattah is an Australian writer of fiction and non-fiction.
13 Facts About Randa Abdel-Fattah
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Randa Abdel-Fattah is an advocate for Palestinian people and human rights in general, and much of her work focuses on identity and what it means to be Muslim in Australia.
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Randa Abdel-Fattah grew up in Melbourne, Victoria and attended a Catholic primary school and then King Khalid Islamic College.
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Randa Abdel-Fattah wrote her first "novel", based on Roald Dahl's Matilda, when she was in sixth grade.
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Randa Abdel-Fattah studied a Bachelor of Arts and Bachelor of Law at the University of Melbourne.
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Randa Abdel-Fattah later completed her PhD, with a thesis on Islamophobia.
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Randa Abdel-Fattah describes herself as a feminist and has written critical pieces on the situation of women in Saudi Arabia.
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Randa Abdel-Fattah maintains that women should retain the right to wear what they want.
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Randa Abdel-Fattah has stated that she no longer discusses the veil, on the basis that it constitutes flogging a dead horse and detracts from the discussion of other issues.
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Randa Abdel-Fattah is a human rights advocate and stood in the 1998 federal election as a member of the Unity Party.
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Randa Abdel-Fattah has been interested in inter-faith dialogue and has been a member of various inter-faith networks.
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Randa Abdel-Fattah has volunteered time with human rights and migrant resource organisations, including: the Australian Arabic council, the Victorian Migrant Resource Centre, the Islamic Women's Welfare Council, and the Asylum Seeker Resource Centre.
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Randa Abdel-Fattah has been a member of the Palestinian Human Rights Committee and the New South Wales Young Lawyers for Human Rights Committee.