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Author Taghred Chandab meets students at VISS
The Dubai-based author of The Perfect Flower Girl and The Glory Garage: Growing up Lebanese Muslim in Australia spoke to students.
Australian author Taghred Chandab visited the Victoria International School of Sharjah (VISS) this week where she shared some words of wisdom and provided personal insights into her own path towards self-discovery.
The Dubai-based author of The Perfect Flower Girl and The Glory Garage: Growing up Lebanese Muslim in Australia spoke to Grade 10 secondary school students and youngsters in Grade 3 about her life experiences and journey to become an award-winning writer.
“I love having the opportunity to share my own journey and hopefully by talking openly and candidly about my experiences in life I can help to guide young people and maybe even provide some level of inspiration for them,” Chandab said.
The mother of three grew up in Sydney and spent 12 years working as a journalist for some of the country’s biggest circulating newspapers. For most of her career, Chandab, one of the original Arabic-speaking Muslim reporters in Australia, worked tirelessly trying to close the widening gap between Muslims and non-Muslims in the country.
Her visit to the school offered the Grade 10 students a unique opportunity to learn from Chandab’s experiences towards discovering her own identity, whilst the Grade 3 students enjoyed an entertaining session listening to her read from The Perfect Flower Girl.
“The students were not only great to talk with, but they were very engaged and had plenty of questions for me!”
The VISS follows an Australian curriculum and offers an IB education for its secondary students. Having regular visitors to the school is part of meeting students’ needs, backgrounds and interests, says Principal Dean Pyrah.
“We like to provide learning experiences that enable the real-life application of knowledge,” he said. “Most of our students come from multicultural backgrounds and we proudly embrace our diversity at VISS, which is why Chandab’s presence was so profound. The meanings of acceptance and harmony are among the core values of our school.”
muaz@khaleejtimes.com
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