In the first episode of our special mini-series "The Trouble with White Feminism," host Jessie Daniels interviews Randa Tawil about the ways that white feminism serves the Zionist project.

Randa Tawil is an Assistant Professor of Women and Gender Studies at Texas Christian University and a fellow at the American Council of Learned Societies. Tawil is also a member of the Palestinian Feminist Collective.

Resources:

Tawil, Randa. "A" Flying Carpet to Doom": Retracing Gender and Orientalism through the Transnational Journeys of a Syrian Migrant Woman, 1912–1949." Frontiers: A Journal of Women Studies 43, no. 1 (2022): 120-144. https://muse.jhu.edu/article/846735

Embodied Archives of the Armenian Genocide, by Elyse Semerdjian (Stanford University Press, 2023). https://www.sup.org/books/title/?id=29963

Tawil, Randa. Race in Transit: Mobilities between Syria and U.S. Empire (forthcoming, Stanford University Press).