Host Jessie Daniels interviews Randa Tawil about the ways that white feminism serves the Zionist project. This is the first episode of our special mini-series “The Trouble with White Feminism.”
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).