Earthly Reads: Céline Semaan on A Woman is a School S1:4

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🗓️ 18 February 2025

⏱️ 29 minutes

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Join us for the fourth episode of our new Earthly Reads series. In this episode, we are joined by the incredible Céline Semaan, founder of Slow Factory and author of A Woman is a School. Sharing stories from her childhood in Lebanon and across her lifelong work towards justice, Céline gives us a look at what it means to be a hakawati (storyteller). Céline asks listeners what it means to have faith in times of crisis, how to commit to your morals in the face of suppression, and what it...

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0:00.0	Hey for the Wild community, Iana here. Welcome to the fourth episode of our new book study series, earthly reads, where we'll learn alongside some of our most beloved authors. After listening to the shorter conversation, head over to For The Wild.
0:21.1	Dot World slash Book Study to learn more and to purchase access to the full course.
0:27.0	We'll be offering significantly more content and access to live recorded conversations with the authors on our website.
0:34.9	We hope to see you there.
0:48.1	We're not really witnessing one another as human beings. There is a dehumanization that is allowed,
0:53.7	that is permitted, where I am no longer a human when that is convenient. There needs to be a space to build intimacy between one another
0:56.0	at the level where we are leveling up on political education
1:00.1	so that we are able to see eye to eye.
1:04.0	You know?
1:04.8	You know? Hello and welcome to For the Wild podcast. I'm Ayanna Young. Today we are speaking with
1:31.5	Celine Saman. Oh, Celine, I am so excited that we're getting to share some really good quality
1:39.5	time together today. And yeah, thanks so much for being with us. Thank you so much,
1:45.3	Ayanna, for having me. Today, I feel really excited to focus in on your new book, which I
1:53.4	really loved called A Woman Is a School. And I'm so glad to have the chance to slowly delve into this with you.
2:03.0	So maybe as we start, I want to give you a bit of space to talk about how the book is sitting with you as the creator,
2:11.0	creatrix, and what types of conversations you hope it prompts.
2:15.5	The conversation that I hope this book prompts are questions about how folks that didn't know
2:24.6	of our existence in the Middle East or in Lebanon or in Palestine, Syria, the Levant,
2:31.0	have been, for instance, feeding their image of us from mainstream cinema or mainstream
2:39.0	media and how much that has impacted the ways in which we are being dehumanized.
2:46.0	The nuances of our stories, the nuances of our lived experience, require for people to open themselves up to us.
2:54.8	Like I always write a note in the beginning of the book when people ask me to sign it.
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