I do most of my reading on the train ride to and from work. But I always have a book in my handbag so that I can read at any time, anywhere.

- Randa Abdel-Fattah

What’s the good of being true to your religion on the outside, if you don’t change what’s on the inside,were it really counts ?

- Randa Abdel-Fattah

Everything is relative. If you want to understand a problem you look at its cause. You don’t look at its manifestation.

- Randa Abdel-Fattah

Religious celebrations, and the good will, high spirits and generosity that mark them, are wonderful occasions for understanding the potential of 'ev…

- Randa Abdel-Fattah

The hijab, or sikh turban, or Jewish skullcap are all explicit symbols, but they do not represent a threat or affront to others, and have no bearing …

- Randa Abdel-Fattah

Belief means nothing without actions

- Randa Abdel-Fattah

We are, at almost every point of our day, immersed in cultural diversity: faces, clothes, smells, attitudes, values, traditions, behaviours, beliefs,…

- Randa Abdel-Fattah

It is time Australian Muslims stop being treated as negotiable citizens in their own country. It is time people stop 'tolerating' us, presuming some …

- Randa Abdel-Fattah

In a multicultural, diverse society there are countless ways in which people negotiate the everyday lived experience and reality of diversity.

- Randa Abdel-Fattah