Randa Abdel-Fattah: Discipline

The personal and the political collide in a novel about deeply resonant experiences of silencing, solidarity and self-serving action.

Set in Sydney in 2021 amid increasing bombardments in Gaza, rising tension at home and the arrest of a Year 12 student protester, Randa Abdel-Fattah’s Discipline tells the prescient story of an academic and a journalist navigating their relationships to the violence from within the Arab diaspora.

Hear Australian Research Council Future Fellow researcher and awarded writer Randa Abdel-Fattah unpack the complex social, cultural and political forces at play in her new novel, in conversation with Bernadette Brennan.