Interviews and Media
New Books Network: https://newbooksnetwork.com/shahd-alshammari-confetti-and-ashes-2025
The Markaz Review: https://themarkaz.org/between-illness-and-exile-in-head-above-water/
Tint Journal: https://tintjournal.com/interview/on-language-writing-disability-and-more-an-interview-with-shahd-alshammari
Women of the Middle East Podcast: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sOerv7tdZvg&t=853s
Afikra Conversations: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oW2DIa02mmw
Life Writing Journal Review: https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/14484528.2022.2125279?scroll=top&needAccess=true
If the Body Could Speak: https://www.thepublishingpost.com/post/if-the-body-could-speak-an-interview-with-dr-shahd-alshammari
Read and Write with Natasha Podcast: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/a-kuwaiti-author-writes-a-narrative-on-illness/id1606621945?i=1000592792759
The Salon: Culture and Literature: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lgaCut9u9NY
The Diverse Bookshelf Podcast: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/ep8-shahd-alshammari-on-reframing-the-narrative/id1635376042?i=1000581638763
Sofia Rehman’s Instalive: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_kZ2Rw0Y0rE
The National News: https://www.thenationalnews.com/arts-culture/books/2022/05/30/memoir-head-above-water-explores-multiple-sclerosis-through-the-lens-of-an-arab-woman/
Nasher News: https://nasher-news.com/head-above-water-by-shahd-alshammari-book-review/
The New Arab: https://english.alaraby.co.uk/features/head-above-water-when-illness-exiles-mind-body
https://carnegieendowment.org/sada/87207
Nasher News Interview https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rec5Ks9qUIQ&t=367s
https://issuu.com/universityofkent/docs/kent_magazine_-_auwi_19-20/s/10209163
https://mediadiversified.org/2017/05/19/fleshing-out-a-narrative-of-illness-notes-on-the-flesh/
https://timesofmalta.com/articles/view/Exploring-the-feminine-ideal.662313
http://booksbywomen.org/notes-on-the-flesh-an-arab-disability-narrative-by-shahd-alshammari/
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/14484528.2019.1658264
https://arablit.org/2018/04/12/notes-on-the-flesh-shahd-alshammari-on-writing-the-disabled-body/
https://www.facebook.com/watch/?v=476473803142542
http://thearabedition.com/blog/notes-on-the-flesh-book-review/
https://www.listennotes.com/podcasts/book-nomad-reading/ep-5-kuwait-notes-on-the-U6VR9Ibf03c/