A Woman is a School is the first memoir and cultural anthropological book by Slow Factory founder, Celine Semaan.

As a war-survivor and child refugee sharing endangered and discredited ancestral knowledge of the Global South, particularly tales from Lebanon from 1948 to 2023-the book follows the tradition of the hakawati, the storytellers of the Levant. Holding Indigenous knowledge and wisdom, Celine Semaan, a hakawati herself, documents what she has witnessed throughout her life and the lives of her family members, sharing her upbringing and cultures of resistance.

Cline Semaan is a Lebanese-Canadian designer, writer, speaker, and advocate working at the intersection of environmental and social justice. She speaks four languages, is a designer, writer, educator, strategist and mother.

Semaan is the founder of Slow Factory, a 501c3 an award-winning organization addressing the intersecting crises of climate justice and social inequity filling the gap for climate adaptation and preparedness, building community power through open education, narrative change and regenerative design. As a part of this work, Slow Factory produces a conference series promoting sustainability literacy called Study Hall, the first science-driven incubator in fashion called One X One, as well as a material science lab focusing on waste to resource new materials.

• Publisher:Slow Factory Press
• Publish Date:August 08, 2024
• Pages:310
• Dimensions:4.37 X 7.0 X 0.77 inches | 0.47 pounds
• Language:English
• Type:Paperback
• EAN/UPC: 9798218437077
• BISAC Categories: Biography & Autobiography – Personal Memoirs, Literary Collections – Essays, Social Science – Women’s Studies, Biography & Autobiography – Women