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RANDA ABDEL-FATTAH is a Palestinian Egyptian Australian Muslim writer, academic, activist and former lawyer. She is a postdoctoral research fellow in the Department of Sociology at Macquarie University. Abdel-Fattah’s books include Islamophobia and Everyday Multiculturalism (2018), the co-edited anthology Arab, Australian, Other: Stories on Race and Identity and Coming of Age in the War on Terror (2021). Abdel-Fattah is also the multi-award-winning author of 11 novels published in over 20 countries, including her best-selling debut novel “Does My Head Look Big in This?” Abdel-Fattah has been nominated for Sweden’s 2019 and 2018 Astrid Lindgren Award, the world’s biggest children’s and young adult literature award.