Randa Abdel-Fattah
Randa Abdel-Fattah was an Australian writer, lawyer, sociologist and jurist (born 1979). She was born at Sydney.
Randa Abdel-Fattah in brief
- Born
- 1979
- Known for
- writer, lawyer, sociologist and jurist
- Place of birth
- Sydney
Contents
Career and activity
Randa Abdel-Fattah worked in sociology, creative and professional writing, identity, Islamophobia and human rights.
She worked at Sydney.
Catalogued works
17 works under this name are catalogued by Wikidata Query Service and Open Library.
Does My Head Look Big in This? Ten Things I Hate About Me. Where the Streets Had a Name. Noah's Law. Discipline. جایی که خیابانها نام داشت. The Friendship Matchmaker Goes Undercover. Eleven Words for Love. Where the Streets Had a Name/Heenama Kan Lil Shawarai Asmaa. Friendship Matchmaker Book 2. Coming of Age in the War on Terror. Arab, Australian, Other. When Michael Met Mina. No Sex in the City. Islamophobia and Everyday Multiculturalism in Australia. The lines we cross. The friendship matchmaker.
Literature
8 scholarly publications naming this subject were located in the registry of record.
As authors abandon Adelaide Writers’ Week after cancelling of Randa Abdel-Fattah, is free speech in tatters?, 2026. Randa Abdel-Fattah in Conversation, Asiatic: IIUM Journal of English Language and Literature, 2018. The Lines We Cross by Randa Abdel-Fattah, Bulletin of the Center for Children's Books, 2017. Should we stay or should we go? Dilemmas arising from (new) corporate ownership of a digital public space, Digital Geography and Society, 2025. The Performative Diasporic Subjectivity in Randa Abdel-Fattah's Ten Things I Hate about Me, Critical Literary Studies, 2020. Muslim Solidarity with Palestine whilst Living on Stolen Land: The politics of Ramadan in Australia, ReOrient, 2025. The Double Bind of Writing as an Australian Muslim Woman, Mashriq & Mahjar, 2017. Linguoimagological Approach to Multicultural Literature (Based on the Novels “Habibi” by Naomi Shihab Nye, “Where the Streets Had a Name” by Randa Abdel-Fattah and “Tasting the Sky: A Palestinian Childhood” by Ibtisam Barakat), Научный диалог, 2019.
Digitised editions and texts
1 digitised item associated with this heading is catalogued by Internet Archive.
Arab, Australian, Other: Stories On Race And Identity (2019) — Internet Archive.
Scholarly footprint
Bibliographic registers publish measured figures for this heading: 13 language editions of the general reference literature carrying an article (Wikimedia (language editions)). A count of publications is evidence of attention, not of standing, and is given here only as a measure.
Evidence base
This article draws on 4 independent source lineages. Copies and mirrors of the same underlying record were collapsed into a single witness, so 4 means 4 genuinely separate publishers of record. 14 further registers were consulted and returned nothing for this heading.
In detail
Randa Abdel-Fattah studied at Melbourne Law School. the recorded working language is English.
The field of work recorded is sociology, creative and professional writing and identity.
Places of work recorded in the authority are Sydney.
Works named in the authority record are Does My Head Look Big in This?
Distinctions recorded are Kathleen Mitchell Award.
Chronology
- 1979Randa Abdel-Fattah born at Sydney.
- 2019Arab, Australian, Other: Stories On Race And Identity digitised by Internet Archive.
Sources
Each source is named with the standing the house places on it, so the evidence can be weighed rather than taken on trust.
- 1.
As authors abandon Adelaide Writers’ Week after cancelling of Randa Abdel-Fattah, is free speech in tatters?, 2026
scholarly publication · Scholarly
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Open Library author record for Randa Abdel-Fattah (Internet Archive), 14 catalogued works.
Institutional database · Scholarly · Internet Archive
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Randa Abdel-Fattah in Conversation, Asiatic: IIUM Journal of English Language and Literature, 2018
scholarly publication · Scholarly
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The Lines We Cross by Randa Abdel-Fattah, Bulletin of the Center for Children's Books, 2017
scholarly publication · Scholarly
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Directory of Open Access Journals lists 5 articles naming Randa Abdel-Fattah.
open access index · Unverified
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Internet Archive, 1 digitised item catalogued under Randa Abdel-Fattah as creator.
digital repository · Unverified
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Wikidata, structured authority record Q4568372: Randa Abdel-Fattah
reference work · Reputable secondary · Wikimedia Foundation
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“Randa Abdel-Fattah”, English Wikipedia, consulted as further reading
reference work · Reputable secondary · Wikipedia
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