Video from Book Talk with Shahd Alshammari
Stanford's Ramzi Salti in conversation with the author of Head Above Water
This video features highlights from Dr. Ramzi Salti's conversation with Dr. Shahd Alshammari commemorating the US release of her new book 'Head Above Water'--an intimate memoir of her life of triumph and resistance, as a woman marked "ill" by society and as a lifelong reader, student, and teacher. CLICK CC for transcript and subtitles. Go to https://youtu.be/crG89FJ3J8I
Dr. Shahd Alshammari is a Kuwaiti-Palestinian author and academic. She is the author of the books Notes on the Flesh and Head Above Water, as well as numerous other academic publications and papers. Her areas of research include illness narratives, disability studies, and questions of identity and language in the Arab world.
Shahd Alshammari is just eighteen when she is diagnosed with multiple sclerosis and told by her neurologist that she will not make it past age thirty. Despite what she is told, by thirty she has managed to navigate education systems in both Kuwait and the United Kingdom, and inspire generations of students as a professor of literature.
Head above Water is the intimate memoir of Shahd Alshammari's life of triumph and resistance, as a woman marked "ill" by society and as a lifelong reader, student, and teacher.
Read Dr. Ramzi Salti's review of the book at this link.