A Woman is a School
Deep Read #30 with Céline Semaan
Deep Read #30 is a conversation with Céline Semaan, a Lebanese-Canadian artist, designer, writer, and the founder of Slow Factory: the environmental and social justice non-profit that redesigns “socially and environmentally harmful systems through open education, narrative change and regenerative design.”
Céline recently published her first book, A Woman is A School, which situates her in a long lineage of hakawati storytellers from the Levant. Part memoir, part cultural anthropology, A Woman Is a School tells Céline’s story as a war survivor and child refugee, and creates an archive for the powerful Indigenous knowledge and wisdom of the Global South. It’s a beautiful account of her personal awakening and education - intellectual, spiritual, and emotional - as well as a manifesto for the beliefs upon which she has built her life’s work.
It was a pleasure to speak with Céline. I hope you enjoy the conversation.
CÉLINE SEMAAN: DEEP READING LIST
“We hold far more wisdom than all the schools combined. We are the school.”
A Woman is a School, Céline Semaan
"All that you touch, You Change. All that you Change, Changes you. The only lasting truth Is Change. God Is Change".
Parable of the Sower, Octavia E. Butler