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02288aam a2200385 i 4500 001 B2CBCA3C4C7A11EE8105036A52ECA4DB 003 SILO 005 20230906010035 008 230218t20232023nyu b 000 0aeng d 020 $a 1952177073 020 $a 9781952177071 020 $a 9781952177088 020 $a 1952177081 040 $d SILO 082 4 $a 306.461 $2 23 100 1 $a Shammarī, Shahd, $e author. 245 10 $a Head above water : $b reflections on illness / $c Shahd Alshammari ; foreword by Mara Mills. 250 $a First Feminist Press edition. 264 1 $a New York : $b Feminist Press, $c 2023. 300 $a xv, 206 pages ; $c 21 cm. 504 $a Includes bibliographical references (pages 205-206). 520 $a "Shahd Alshammari is just eighteen when she is diagnosed with multiple sclerosis, and told by her neurologist that she would not make it past age thirty. Despite what she is told, by thirty, she has become a professor of literature, and has managed to navigate education systems in both Kuwait and the United Kingdom and inspire generations of students. Head above Water is the intimate, philosophical 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. Charting her journey with raw honesty, Alshammari explores disability, displacement, and belonging--not only of the body, but of culture, gender, and race, and imparts wisdom of profound philosophical value throughout. It is people, human connections, that keep us afloat, she argues--"and in storytelling we have the power to gain a sense of agency over our lives."--Publisher's description. 600 10 $a Shammarī, Shahd. 650 0 $a Diseases $x Social aspects. 650 0 $a Disabilities $x Social aspects. 650 0 $a Multiple sclerosis $x Psychology. 650 0 $a Women $x Health and hygiene $z Arab countries. 650 0 $a Women $z Arab countries $x Social conditions. 650 0 $a Women authors, Palestinian Arab $v Biography. 655 7 $a Autobiographies. $2 lcgft. 700 1 $a Mills, Mara, $e writer of foreword. 941 $a 2 952 $l VXPE964 $d 20240217013336.0 952 $l CAPH522 $d 20230906010055.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=B2CBCA3C4C7A11EE8105036A52ECA4DBInitiate Another SILO Locator Search