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'Randa Abdel-Fattah is a lawyer, human rights activist and
a doctoral candidate in the Centre for Social Inclusion at
Macquarie University, researching Islamophobia. She is
regular guest commentator on radio and television. In
2010, she was invited by the US State Department as the
Australian representative in a three-week program across
the United States to investigate multiculturalism and policy.
She is the third writer in Sydney PEN's 'Free Voices' series.' (6)
'This essay by author and lawyer Randa Abdel-Fattah,
presented in Sydney at the special event to mark
The Day of the Imprisoned Writer, is the third in
Sydney PEN's 'Free Voices' lecture and essay program,
running from 2012 to 2014 using funds granted by Copyright
Agency Limited. The program is designed to build public
awareness and concern about freedom of expression, and to
galvanise a larger, broader demographic of supporters who will
challenge human rights abuses and stand up for the freedom to
write and read. It offers new and established writers the opportu
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nity to raise or utilise their profile and express their commitment to
freedom of expression in a contemporary context.' (8)
'Jumbunna Indigenous House of Learning at the University
of Technolgy, Sydney, and Sydney Story Factory marked
Indigenous Literacy Day on September 5 with story telling
workshops for primary and secondary school students at
UTS Library. The workshops set out to show the students
how much fun writing can be, encourage them to find their
own voice and think about higher education as a possibility,
report
Melita Rowston and James Saunders.' (13)
