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:

The Billionaires Buying Our Attention Are Buying Our Reality

Dear Jane Doe
Dear Sister

You’ve Seen This Before
I went looking through the archives for the past and found the present staring back at me.

Music is Political:
Sounds that Move Movements
Music is Political for Vic Mensa

Art in Times of War
A Conversation with Ahmed Amer and Nasri Sayegh

EIP TV Live
Episode 2

The Media Wars Are Taking a Personal Turn:
A Family Feud Comes for Public Media

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
Michèle Lamy

Cherien Dabis
All That’s Left of You

Louis Pisano
susan abulhawa is not sorry

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

Samira Mohyeddin

Mamdani & The Era of Possibilities

On the Failures of Mainstream Media
The Rise of Independent Newsrooms

Designing Possible Futures
The Book

Richie Reseda

Noura Erakat

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Unpublished, Erased, Unarchived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

From Exile to Empowerment
Rima Hassan on the Fight for Justice and Representation
Interviewing the Interviewer
Prem Thakker on his Relentless Reporting on Gaza and U.S. Government Accountability
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
