Dr Randa Abdel-Fattah worked as a lawyer for ten years. She is now a DECRA Research Fellow in the Department of Sociology at Macquarie University researching the generational impact of the war on terror on Muslim and non-Muslm youth born into a post 9/11 world. Adopting qualitative and ethnographic methods in everyday contexts, Randa's research interests broadly centre on critical race studies, race and ethnic relations, (particulalry the spatial, embodied and material aspects of racism and Islamophobia), 'everyday multiculturalism', and youth identities in the context of the war on terror and the geopolitics of fear. Her most recent book is Islamophobia and Everyday Multiculturalism (2018) published by Routledge. Randa is a prominent Australian Muslim and Palestinian advocate and is well known for her media commentary as a public intellectual. The author of 11 novels published and translated in over 20 countries, Randa writes across a wide range of genres and actively seeks to translate her academic work into creative interventions which reshape dominant narratives around race, human rights and identity in popular culture. Her work has been adapted to the stage and performed in Australia, the US and Europe. With funding by Screen Australia, Randa has adapted one of her novels to a major feature film and has incorporated findings from her current research project into the film (filming to start in 2019). Randa is regularly invited as a guest speaker at writer's festivals around the world where she speaks about her academic research, creative writing and work in schools. She is a Stella Schools Ambassador promoting awareness around gender diversity from an intersectional framework through workshops in Australian schools. She is currently co-editing an anthology 'Growing up Arab in Australia' due for publication in 2019.
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