![]() ![]() I felt compelled to write a book that would somehow allow readers to look past the veil and see the person within and realise I wasn’t a walking stereotype. I was in Year 9 and I felt very passionate about being an Australian Muslim girl who felt a sense of being misunderstood by the wider community because of my beliefs and also because I wore the hijab as part of my school uniform. I wrote the first draft of Does My Head Look Big in This? when I was fifteen. Randa is also working on the film adaptation of her first novel, Does My Head Look Big in This? and is keen to use her intervention into popular culture to reshape dominant narratives around racism and multiculturalism. While conducting her PhD, Randa was inspired to write a novel, enabling her to translate some of the theories and academic themes she was researching into a fictional work for a young adult audience. ![]() Randa practised as a lawyer until 2012 and is currently completing her doctorate at Macquarie University, researching Islamophobia and everyday multiculturalism from the point of view of the perpetrators. ![]() Randa Abdel-Fattah is an award-winning author and has published ten novels including Ten Things I Hate About Me and Noah’s Law. Back to ‘Faith Fashion Fusion’ Randa Abdel-Fattah ![]()
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