Head Above Water: Reflections on Illness
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"Shahd Alshammari's sensuous prose explores the manipulation of memory, the question of time, and gender politics. We are invited to reconsider the intricacies of love, the body, motherhood, the pervasive power of language, the power of women's education, and the synergy between the Professor and the student."—Jokha Alharthi Omani author of Celestial bodies, winner of the International Man Booker Prize (2019)
"Reading Alshammari's work, I thought continually of Yeats's famous line, "a terrible beauty is born." In this book, illness is that terrible beauty, always affecting but never determining the author's life."—Arthur W. Frank, Ph.D. Author of At the Will of the Body and The Wounded Storyteller
"An important piece of life writing - Shahd Alshammari's memoir breaks new ground in representing the lives of disabled Arab women. Exploring connections between the body, language, and culture, Alshammari's new memoir is a sensitive and moving invitation to reconsider the stories that we are made of." —Dr. Roxanne Douglas, University of Warwick
"A necessary and beautiful account of life with a sometimes-invisible and unpredictable disability, complicated by both patriarchy and racism, as well as a professor's love letter to the act of teaching and being taught."—Marcia Lynx Qualey (@Arablit)
Shahd Alshammari
Shahd Alshammari has Multiple Sclerosis and is a Kuwaiti-Palestinian author and academic. After gaining her PhD in the UK, she became an Assistant Professor of Literature in Kuwait. Her research interests focus on women with mental illness in literature. Alshammari is especially interested in the concept of hybridity, having been born to a Bedouin father and a Palestinian mother. She is also interested in Disability Studies and the correlation of disability studies with identity in the Arab world, having been diagnosed with Multiple Sclerosis at the age of 18.
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