Céline Semaan
Céline Semaan is a Lebanese-Canadian researcher, designer, public speaker, and entrepreneur. She is the co-founder and executive director of Slow Factory, an institute and lab that transforms socially and environmentally harmful systems by designing models that are good for the Earth and good for people. She currently sits on Progressive International’s Council alongside Noam Chomsky and Arundhati Roy and has published in Elle, the New York Magazine and Teen Vogue. Her inter-disciplinary work at the intersection of fashion, climate, and politics has been covered by numerous news and fashion outlets. She is also the co-founder of Everything is Political, and leads creative direction and editorial strategy.
In Conversation:
But what happens to “sustainable fashion” when the world itself feels unsustainable?
Political Friendship Breakups
Lost Connections During Genocide
Michèle Lamy on Feeling Free
Fashion was Always Political
susan abulhawa
On Holding a Writing Workshop in Gaza Amidst Genocide
Yasmine Hamdan
I Remember, I Forget
Rahma Zein is Defying Journalism
Astrology is Political
A Look at 2026 Through Chani Nicholas’ Lens
An Injury to One is an Injury to All
Chris Smalls is Writing His Story
Nothing Is ”Apolitical”
Why I Refused to Exhibit at the Venice Biennale
Sweet Like Jam, from New York to Jamaica
Mecca Williams Bridging Fashion, Community & Purpose
NorBlack NorWhite
Against Dictators and Intervention
Sahar Delijani on Iran
Samira Mohyeddin on Iran
Mamdani & The Era of Possibilities
On the Failures of Mainstream Media
The Rise of Independent Newsrooms
Designing Possible Futures
The Book
Noura Erakat
Richie Reseda
Gaza’s Very Own Hind Khoudary
Unpublished, Erased, Unarchived
Why Arab-Led Publishing Matters More Than Ever
A Woman is a School
Censorship Didn’t Start With Kimmel
Why Independent Media Is Our Biggest Asset
One Year of Narrative Power, Built by Us All
The Art of Witnessing
Malak Mattar
I couldn’t see colors anymore
Heirlooms:
the Forest as Gallery
Céline Semaan
Ziad Rahbani and the Art of Creative Rebellion
The Culture of Artificial Intelligence
Uranus & The Cycle of Liberation
Socialist Girl Summer
How Capitalism Spent Billions to Demonize Socialism — And Why That Spell Is Breaking
Pop Culture is Political
Trans Liberation is Collective Liberation
The West’s Manufactured Fear
How Media Made “The Middle-East” the Enemy
Abducting Families on Occupied Land
The Shared Logic of ICE and the IDF
A Woman is a School
The Anger of Recognition: Witnessing Gaza and the Pain of Belated Solidarity
Rima Hassan Onboard the Freedom Flotilla
Memory Is Political
A Woman is a School
Sustainable Fashion Is Colonial—And Silent About Palestine
Worldbuilding Amidst World Crumbling - the new Slow Factory
Algorithms of Authoritarianism vs the Media We Need Now
Not a Moment of Silence
Marking 77 Years of Nakba
This is What You Can Do To Support the Freedom Flotilla
Where is our collective Conscience?
Reclaiming the Algorithm
Why We Built Everything Is Political
Space Tourism Isn’t Progress. It’s Propaganda.
A Woman is Political
On Art, Life & Activism
Nan Goldin, photographed by Mohamad Abdouni, interviewed by Céline Semaan
Memo: Designing for our Freedoms
Interviewing the Interviewer
Prem Thakker on his Relentless Reporting on Gaza and U.S. Government Accountability
From Exile to Empowerment
Rima Hassan on the Fight for Justice and Representation
Reclaiming Feminism and Collective Liberation
Mia Khalifa & Céline Semaan on Healing, Identity, and Political Awakening
Exile to expression: how Lina Soualem’s film challenges colonial narratives
Systemic Change is Difficult and Dangerous
On Palestine
An Open Conversation with Noura Erakat