# Event Details - **Event Name**: Randa Tawil with Maryam S. Griffin — 'Race in Transit' - **Event Start and End Date**: Wed, 22 Jul, 2026 at 07:00 pm – Wed, 22 Jul, 2026 at 08:30 pm - **Event Description**: Race in Transit makes migrants the agents of a world history that has too often relegated them to the sidelines.About this EventThird Place Books welcomes University of Washington lecturer Randa Tawil to our Ravenna store for a conversation about her new book, . Centering the experiences of people on the move, Race in Transit explores the invention of race in the early twentieth century and its impacts on Syrian migrants to the United States. Associate professor Maryam S. Griffin joins in conversation.This event is free and open to the public. For important updates, RSVP is highly recommended in advance. This event will include a public signing and time for audience Q&A. Sustain our author series by purchasing a copy of the featured books!Tickets:This event is free to attend. Registration is recommended in advance.Please note: While RSVP helps us anticipate attendance, your RSVP may not guarantee a seat. Seating is first-come, first-served, and all events at our Ravenna neighborhood store are free and open to the public. Only standing room may be available for events with high interest.We are happy to accommodate any accessibility concerns. Please contact us at events@thirdplacebooks.com or call our Ravenna store at (206) 525-2347.About Race in Transit. . .At the turn of the twentieth century, life in Ottoman Syria was upended by European and US colonial and capital expansion. Many people responded by migrating to the United States. In doing so, they stepped into the world of international migration, where they had to navigate overlapping states and migration infrastructures--shipping companies and ticketing agents, health inspectors and border police, universities and kinship networks--that each facilitated, restricted, and policed movement.With this book, Randa Tawil follows the itineraries of the early Syrian diaspora, stitching together migrants' travels across archives from Beirut, Marseille, Liverpool, Manila, Washington, D.C., Michigan, and Texas. She reveals the overlapping and contradicting ways in which race was forged globally in the early twentieth century and its effects on Syrians in the United States. Syrian migrants encountered multiple imperial and national legal regimes during transit, and their varying relationships with different empires set the conditions under which migrants were considered "desirable" or "undesirable" once they reached US borders. Focusing on the experiences of those on the move, Race in Transit makes migrants the agents of a world history that has too often relegated them to the sidelines.Randa Tawil is a Palestinian-Lebanese researcher, writer, and lecturer at University of Washington in the Jackson School of International Studies. She holds a doctorate in American Studies from Yale University, and writes about migration, US empire, and the Middle East. Her work has been featured in The Washington Post, Margins, and Open Democracy, as well as scholarly journals.Maryam S. Griffin is an associate professor in the School of Interdisciplinary Arts & Sciences at University of Washington, Bothell. Broadly, her work examines people’s ordinary movements, both physical and political, and how they confront state power in quotidian and spectacular ways. She is the author of Vehicles of Decolonization: Public Transit in the Palestinian West Bank, part of the Critical Race, Indigeneity, and Relationality book series with Temple University Press, and the co-editor of We Will Not Be Silenced: The Academic Repression of Israel’s Critics.About Third Place BooksFounded in 1998 in Lake Forest Park, Washington, Third Place Books is dedicated to the creation of a community around books and the ideas inside them. With locations in Lake Forest Park and Seattle's Ravenna and Seward Park neighborhoods, Third Place Books is proud to serve the entire Seattle metro area. Learn more about their event series at thirdplacebooks.com/events. - **Event URL**: https://allevents.in/seattle/randa-tawil-with-maryam-s-griffin-race-in-transit/100001991880526274 - **Event Categories**: sports, art, literary-art, health-wellness - **Interested Audience**: - total_interested_count: 0 - **Event Highlights**: - Duration: 1 hour 30 minutes - Location: Third Place Books Ravenna - Languages: English ## Ticket Details - **Ticket Price Range**: min: 0, max: 0, currency: USD ## Event venue details - **city**: Seattle - **state**: WA - **country**: United States - **location**: Third Place Books Ravenna - **lat**: 47.6759975 - **long**: -122.3063751 - **full address**: Third Place Books Ravenna, 6504 20th Avenue Northeast, Seattle, United States ## Event gallery - **Alt text**: Randa Tawil with Maryam S. 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