#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 Palestinian Egyptian Muslim writer, academic, anti-racism and Palestine advocate, former lawyer and the multi-award-winning author of 13 books published in over 20 countries. She is the series editor of the forthcoming new children’s book series Our Stories (2022, Pan Macmillan). Her first picture story book, 11 Words for Love, illustrated by Maxine Beneba Clarke, is due for release in 2022 (Hachette). Randa is also a postdoctoral research fellow in the Department of Sociology at Macquarie University where she researches Islamophobia, race, social justice movements and youth identities. Randa lives in Sydney with her husband and four children.
