{"product_id":"coming-of-age-in-the-randa-abdel-fatta-9781742236865","title":"Coming of Age in the War on Terror","description":"\u003cp\u003e'One minute you're a 15-year-old girl who loves Netflix and music and the next minute you're looked at as maybe ISIS.'\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWe now have a generation - Muslim and non-Muslim - who has grown up only knowing a world at war on terror, and who has been socialised in a climate of widespread Islamophobia, surveillance and suspicion.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn Coming of Age in the War on Terror, award-winning writer Randa Abdel-Fattah interrogates the impact of all this on young people's political consciousness and their trust towards adults and the societies they live in. Drawing on local interviews but global in scope, this book is the first to examine the lives of a generation for whom the rise of the far-right and the growing polarisation of politics seem normal. It's about time we hear what they have to say.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e'As one of Australia's most compelling cultural critics, Abdel-Fattah curates a precise and substantive account of the impact of 'terrorist discourse' on an entire generation. With heartbreaking pathos, she invites us into the minds and hearts of a generation of thoughtful and intelligent young Muslim and non-Muslim Australians from diverse social backgrounds. This ambitious project, comparable in its breadth to Ghassan Hage's seminal \u003cem\u003eWhite Nation, \u003c\/em\u003e is part cultural memoir, part empirical research essay and part historical record. Excoriating the hypocrisy of neoliberal social interventionist policies, Abdel-Fattah has given us a rich and important work, as moving in its sincerity as it is unprecedented in its scope.' - Daniel Nour, \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eBooks+Publishing\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e'Randa Abdel-Fattah's compelling work reminds us that the way the global War on Terror has been prosecuted lands like blows across the backs of Muslim communities - it is in the everyday, the mundane, but also in the structures of state. The book should be praised for its depth and breadth of insights into Australia, as we see contemporary Islamophobia in the shade of the War on Terror revealed.' - Dr Asim Qureshi, Research Director, CAGE (UK) and author of \u003cem\u003eA Virtue of Disobedience\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e'Only someone like Randa Abdel-Fattah with her history as an academic, an activist and a novelist can produce a book like this: analytically sharp, anecdotally rich, politically relevant and beautifully written. Whoever you are, read it and it'll make a better Australian out of you.' - Ghassan Hage, Professor of Anthropology and Social Theory, School of Social and Political Science, University of Melbourne\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e'Randa Abdel-Fattah has produced an urgent book for our time. \u003cem\u003eComing of Age in The War on Terror \u003c\/em\u003eis a story of injustice against those who suffer because of prejudice and manufactured fear. It is a vital work about us, Australians. This book poses many questions that we must confront if we are to ever consider ourselves an inclusive society. With courage, intelligence and acute insight, Abdel-Fattah is asking that we think and act with thoughtfulness and not ignorance.' - Tony Birch\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Randa Abdel-Fatta\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1742236863\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781742236865\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Newsouth Pub.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 02\/01\/2021\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 352\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.19lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.21h x 6.14w x 0.79d","brand":"Randa Abdel-Fatta","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":44047639281919,"sku":"9781742236865","price":32.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_d13fe2ba-2f1d-4f09-a399-cd2f357e6d94.jpg?v=1684991372","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/coming-of-age-in-the-randa-abdel-fatta-9781742236865","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}