Randa abdel fattah biography of christopher columbus

PERSONAL:

Born 1979, in Australia; father a senior aeronautical engineering research scientist, mother deputy director of the Australian International Academy; married; children: one daughter.

Education: King Khalid Islamic College (now Australian International Academy), International Baccalaureate. Religion: Muslim.

ADDRESSES:

Home—Sydney, New South Wales, Australia.

CAREER:

Lawyer, human rights activist, and writer.

MEMBER:

Law Society of New South Wales, Australiasian Institute of Judicial Administration and the Coalition for Peace and Justice in Palestine.

WRITINGS:

NOVELS

Does My Head Look Big in This?, Orchard Books (New York, NY), 2007.

Ten Things I Hate about Me, Pan Macmillan (Sydney, New South Wales, Australia), 2006.

SIDELIGHTS:

Randa Abdel-Fattah drew on her own life experiences to write her first novel, Does My Head Look Big in This? The story concerns Amal, a girl of Middle Eastern heritage who is born in Australia.