Meet the Author
Reem Ibrahim Al Sehlawi
(b. 1990, Doha) Reem Ibrahim Al Sehlawi is an Islamic environmental ethicist, farmer, and textile artist, working to raise awareness on the relationship between humans and the natural environment through impact-driven initiatives built around the intersection of ecology, art, and culture. She is the co-founder of Atlas Bookstore (2015), a transient bookstore specialized in the natural and built environments in the Arab world and the founder of SEAM (2017) a tailoring studio based in Qatar championing a holistic human / environment-centered approach to design, production, and consumption. She is also the associate director at the Arab Youth Climate Movement Qatar. Al Sehlawi's research spans a wide range of topics with a focus on the revival and advancement of traditional ecological knowledge in the Arab world and applied Islamic environmental ethics in addressing contemporary environmental dilemmas. Her active interests include permaculture farming, growing and cultivating natural dye plants, native insects macro photography, and observing micro-climates. She holds a Bachelor of Arts in Real Estate Development from Kingston’s University in London and a Master of Arts in Applied Islamic Ethics from Hamad Bin Khalifa University in Qatar.
