COMING OF AGE IN THE WAR ON TERROR IBD

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âÇÖOne minute youâÇÖre a 15-year-old girl who loves Netflix and music and the next minute youâÇÖre looked at as maybe ISIS.âÇÖWe 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.InáComing of Age in the War on Terror, award-winning writer Randa Abdel-Fattah interrogates the impact of all this on young peopleâÇÖs 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. ItâÇÖs about time we hear what they have to say.âÇÖAs one of AustraliaâÇÖs most compelling cultural critics, Abdel-Fattah curates a precise and substantive account of the impact of âÇÖterrorist discourseâÇÖ 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 HageâÇÖs seminaláWhite Nation,áis 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.âÇÖá- Daniel Nour,áBooks+PublishingâÇÖRanda Abdel-FattahâÇÖs compelling work reminds us that the way the global War on Terror has been prosecuted lands like blows across the backs of Muslim communitiesá- 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.âÇÖ - DráAsimáQureshi, Research Director, CAGE (UK) and author ofáA Virtue of DisobedienceâÇÖOnly 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.áWhoever you are, read it and itâÇÖll make a better Australian out of you.âÇÖ - GhassanáHage, Professor of Anthropology and Social Theory, School of Social and Political Science, University of MelbourneâÇÖRanda Abdel-Fattah has produced an urgent book for our time.áComing of Age in The War on Terroráis 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.âÇÖá- Tony Birch