For me, religious festivals and celebrations have become an important way to teach my children about how we can transform living with diversity from the superficial 'I eat ethnic food', to something dignified, mutually respectful and worthwhile. — Randa Abdel-Fattah Copy Share Image
Religious celebrations, and the good will, high spirits and generosity that mark them, are wonderful occasions for understanding the potential of 'everyday multiculturalism', and how people from diverse faiths can connect and show they care, rather than go down parallel,… — Randa Abdel-Fattah Copy Share Image
The easiest way for readers to connect with characters and feel sympathy is to make the character entertaining, sympathetic and likeable. — Randa Abdel-Fattah Copy Share Image
My family are observant Muslims, but I've come to the faith through an intellectual conviction, and that's something that they've taught me. It's never… — Randa Abdel-Fattah Copy Share Image
“I'm starting to realize that being born into this social world is a little like being born into clean air. You take it in… — Randa Abdel-Fattah Copy Share Image
In a multicultural, diverse society there are countless ways in which people negotiate the everyday lived experience and reality of diversity. — Randa Abdel-Fattah Copy Share Image
True friends are those who love you not in spite of your faults and imperfections, but because of them. — Randa Abdel-Fattah Copy Share Image
“Mr. Taylor has this habit of emphasizing his point by using three adjectives or verbs in a row. 'Class, you must know,' Simon begins [imitating] in a droning voice, flinging her arms around at every syllable, 'that should you fail to understand, to comprehend, to FEEL the power of the Constitution’s words you will lose, forfeit, SURRENDER your ability to… — Randa Abdel-Fattah Copy Share
Most Muslim women know it is fear and curiosity that cause people to stare. They know it is ignorance and stereotypes that cause people… — Randa Abdel-Fattah Copy Share Image
When it comes to the hijab - why to wear it, whether to wear it, how to wear it - there is theology and… — Randa Abdel-Fattah Copy Share Image
Spirituality is deeply personal. Yet, society has to face the fact that certain faiths celebrate spirituality through an overt expression of inner convictions. — Randa Abdel-Fattah Copy Share Image
And it’s when I’m standing there this morning, in my PJs and a hijab, next to my mum and my dad, kneeling before God,… — Randa Abdel-Fattah Copy Share Image
there is more to this hijab than the whole modesty thing. These girls are strangers to me but I know that we all felt… — Randa Abdel-Fattah Copy Share Image
