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Randa Abdel-Fattah

Palestinian Writer

Born: Jun 6, 1979

Diversity Me People Time Woman Writing

Related authors: Ayn Rand Dr. Seuss H. L. Mencken Napoleon Hill Niccolo Machiavelli Thomas Mann Thomas Paine Voltaire

We are, at almost every point of our day, immersed in cultural diversity: faces, clothes, smells, attitudes, values, traditions, behaviours, beliefs, rituals. Randa Abdel-Fattah

Day Values Diversity Clothes Every Our Immersed Faces Point Rituals Almost Attitudes Smells Cultural Cultural Diversity Traditions Beliefs

If I like a book, I tend to read the author's entire collection. But I choose mainly through personal recommendations, general word of mouth and book reviews. Randa Abdel-Fattah

Book Word Mouth Collection Recommendations Entire General Tend Through Mainly Like Read Reviews Author Personal Word-Of-Mouth Choose

I wasn't rebellious. Other friends had far stricter parents and where there wasn't a relationship of respect and communication, they were usually the opposite; kids go to the other extreme. Randa Abdel-Fattah

Relationship Respect Communication Parents Other Stricter Extreme Kids Had Go Opposite Were Friends Where Far Rebellious

My family are observant Muslims, but I've come to the faith through an intellectual conviction, and that's something that they've taught me. It's never been forced upon me. They've given me a very strong identity as an Australian Muslim. Randa Abdel-Fattah

One of the first serious attempts I made to write a novel was when I was in Grade 6 and I had read 'Matilda.' I wrote my own version and my teacher had it bound and permitted me to read it to the class - cementing my love of reading, writing and Roald Dahl! Randa Abdel-Fattah

When it comes to the hijab - why to wear it, whether to wear it, how to wear it - there is theology and then there is practice, and there is huge diversity in both. Randa Abdel-Fattah

Diversity Practice Wear Both How Huge Whether Then Theology Why

To the Muslim woman, the hijab provides a sense of empowerment. It is a personal decision to dress modestly according to the command of a genderless Creator; to assert pride in self, and embrace one's faith openly, with independence and courageous conviction. Randa Abdel-Fattah

When you exist in the centre of a debate, as a topic, a hypothesis - otherised and stigmatised - you become the prop in a proposition. Randa Abdel-Fattah

You Debate Become Topic Prop Proposition Hypothesis Exist Centre

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