Скачать или смотреть The PalFest Podcast: DISCIPLINE with Randa Abdel-Fattah & Sara Yasin

DISCIPLINE is the razor sharp new novel from Randa Abdel-Fattah, a cutting satire about the lives of four Muslim characters and their efforts to navigate racism and censorship in Australia.

She's in conversation for the PalFest Podcast here with Sara Yasin, previously Managing Editor of the LA Times, and now a member of the PalFest team, where she's developing a new online outlet.

It's a brilliant, lively, personal, uncompromising conversation that goes deep into the cultural architecture of Western liberal institutions - and why they are "collapsing before our eyes."

This episode was recorded between Palestine and so-called Australia on November 17th, 2025.

DISCIPLINE is the PalFest Bookshelf pick for Dec-Jan and is exclusively available to readers outside of so-called Australia via our book subscription service.



RANDA ABDEL-FATTAH is an ARC Future Fellow at Macquarie University. Her research areas cover Islamophobia, race, Palestine, the war on terror, youth identities and social movement activism. Dr Abdel-Fattah is also a former lawyer and the award-winning author of twelve books for children and young adults, which have been translated into over thirteen languages. She has won and been shortlisted and longlisted for awards including the Australian Book Industry Award, the Australian Book of the Year Award, the Victorian and NSW premiers’ literary awards, the Stella Prize, the Children’s Book Council Award, the Middle East Outreach Council USA and the Astrid Lindgren Memorial awards. Her bilingual English and Arabic picture story book, 11 Words for Love, illustrated by Maxine Beneba Clarke, was shortlisted for the 2023 Prime Minister’s Literary Award.



SARA YASIN is a Palestinian-American journalist and editor with over a decade of experience in newsrooms in the US and UK. Most recently, she was managing editor of the Los Angeles Times, leading its digital transformation. She left in January 2024.

Before that, she was at BuzzFeed News for almost seven years, where she mostly focused on audience development and eventually became the site’s managing editor. She has also worked for GlobalPost, Mic, and Index on Censorship.