An independent, ad-free leftist magazine of critical essays, poetry, fiction, and art.

Randa Tawil is a Palestinian Lebanese poet and Assistant Professor of Women and Gender Studies at Texas Christian University. She received her doctorate in the Department of American Studies at Yale University, and she specializes in migration and mobility, ethnic studies, and Arab/Middle Eastern American studies.
  • Poem for Gaza

    Poem for Gaza

    Palestinian Lebanese poet Randa Tawil’s “Poem for Gaza” meditates on the vertiginous experience of watching the Palestinian genocide unfold: “Time is bent,” she writes, “It has cracked open. Destiny is devouring us.”