#Performances
#About the event
Duration: 60 minutes
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Investigate the process and importance of writing in multiple voices with Randa Abdel-Fattah, as she discusses how writing can expose growing minds to other points of view.
Randa’s new novel When Michael Met Mina (Pan Macmillan), was inspired by her fieldwork for her PhD, while attending anti-Islam and anti-refugee rallies. Following interviews and research on the topic of Islamaphobia, Randa created Mina, a young Afghan refugee and Michael, a boy in a family of anti-Islam supporters, and threw the two teens together in the lower North Shore of Sydney.
When Michael Met Mina recently won both the Victorian Premier’s Literary Awards Prize for Writing for Young Adults and the People’s Choice Award.
#Artist
Randa Abdel-Fattah
Randa Abdel-Fattah is a prominent Australian Muslim Palestinian academic researching race and Islamophobia at Macquarie University. She is also the multi-award winning author of 11 books whose young adult and children’s books are published in over sixteen countries. She is currently adapting her debut novel Does My Head Look Big In This? as a feature film. She is co-editor of the 2019 anthology, Arab Australia Other: Stories on Race and identity. She lives in Sydney with her husband and four children.
