Reclaiming Feminism and Collective Liberation:

Mia Khalifa & Céline Semaan on Healing, Identity, and Political Awakening

Mia Khalifa

CÉLINE SEMAAN: I have so many questions—they are a bit intense. So we are going to start with the intensity immediately… Anjed we woke up and the news was so disgusting. I mean this is our reality.

We joke and laugh because we’ve developed this amazing sense of humor, but the world we’ve grown up in has been very very intense. We’ve mastered the art of talking about heavy issues, making it personal because everything is political right?

MIA KHALIFA: Everything.

CÉLINE: I wrote something recently, about how ‘free Palestine’ is also about Lebanon. The Lebanese endured 35 years of war and genocide in Lebanon, all before social media existed.

In Conversation:
Mia KhalifaCéline Semaan
Photography by:
Elizabeth De La Piedra
Filed under:
Interviews
Topics:
Collective HealingReclaiming Narratives
Location:
The Empire
Series:
EIP TV
From EIP #10From EIP #2