Shahd Alshammari – ARABLIT & ARABLIT QUARTERLY

afikra Conversations: Author Shahd Alshammari

Join afikra as they interview academic, author & researcher of illness narratives and disability studies Shahd Alshammari on the afikra Conversations series.

An Evening With Shahd Alshammari

ALQ contributor Shahd Alshammari will be in conversation with Archna Sharma (Neem Tree Press) about her new memoir ‘Head Above Water’.

From ArabLit Quarterly

Launching the MIRRORS Issue: Recovering Their Medieval Magic

In the pieces included here, men seem more likely to link mirrors to a past, while for women they are part of an encircling present.

Interviews

Multiple Sclerosis and its Literary Representation: A Talk with Reema Humood

“As a disabled female academic living with (and researching) MS, I sat down with the author to discuss her novel’s gendered elements of disability. In particular, I wanted to know more about her position as abled-bodied author and her choice of MS as the protagonist’s disease.”