Ramzi Salti Moderates Shahd Alshammari's Book Launch [Highlights]

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Recorded on July 18, 2023; Hosted by the Abbasi Program at Stanford University with the support of Stanford Global Studies. With special thanks to Professor Lisa Blaydes.
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.
Complete video available at • Head Above Water U.S. ...
Book Synopsis:
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.
Dr. Shahd AlShammari is a Kuwaiti-Palestinian writer, academic scholar and assistant professor of English at at the Gulf University for Science and Technology (Kuwait). She is well known for her works that focus on human and women's rights, disability issues and, recently, illness.
Dr. Ramzi Salti is a Lecturer for the Arabic Program at Stanford University as well as the author of "The Native Informant and Other Stories." He also authors his own 'Arabology' blog at arabology.org (featuring cultural productions from/about the Arab World) and hosts a radio program titled 'Arabology' which airs on KZSU Stanford 90.1 FM
Read Ramzi Salti's review of the book at www.arabology.org/2023/06/hea...