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This upcoming lecture is part of the Muslim Women Writers Series, presented by the Department of Language, Culture and Communication at the College of Humanities and Social Sciences.
In this lecture, bestselling author Dr. Randa Abdel Fattah will share her insights on how her experiences as an academic, educator in primary and secondary schools, activist, writer, community organizer, and former lawyer have shaped her children's and young adult books. She will also discuss her upcoming book for adults, titled "Discipline," which is scheduled for publication in September 2025.
Dr. Randa will focus on how she approaches her creative writing practice as, in the words of artist Nitasha Dhillon, “training in the practice of freedom.” She will demonstrate how writing can "unleash powers of direction, action, and radical imagination," enabling us to tell the stories of our broken world while also inspiring us to enact change in the present, rather than postponing our ideals and hopes to an imagined future.
The lecture will center on three of her books across different genres: her bilingual Arabic-English award-winning children’s book, “11 Words for Love,” her award-winning young adult novel, “The Lines We Cross,” and her upcoming adult novel, “Discipline.”
The event will be held in English with live Arabic interpretation.
