https://shahdalshammari.com/home daily 0.75 2021-05-06 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5cd1a3f41e2d220001ef6179/1561905828635-3CRN97H1RK1TZVDFNU6G/image-asset.jpeg Home - Alejandra Cruz is a singer and songwriter from Barcelona, Spain. Her new album is available now. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5cd1a3f41e2d220001ef6179/1561390514006-KVOBH64WN7VBPA5IXAI3/4.jpg Home - New Album Out Now Over ten songs, Cruz’s new album charts a year in the life of a cast of characters who step in and out of the shadows. Featuring lush production and a full string section, it’s her most accomplished album to date. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5cd1a3f41e2d220001ef6179/1558392343748-CC9SDIFX7DUGNLMX2USY/ishimoto13.jpg Home https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5cd1a3f41e2d220001ef6179/1558392295077-93GAS44ETZ8R8TB0POO4/image-asset.jpeg Home https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5cd1a3f41e2d220001ef6179/1558392309072-QO13XE2UBS8FQ1HZY8K9/image-asset.jpeg Home https://shahdalshammari.com/about daily 1.0 2025-07-31 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60943d56a78cf33e36a5da60/1620387565969-MT1X0LEEIXBWEFTIJUTF/2020_March_Shahd_Al-Shammari_3%281%29.jpg About - Shahd Alshammari is a Kuwaiti-Palestinian author and academic. She is the author of Notes on the Flesh (Faraxa Press, 2017) Head Above Water (Neem Tree Press, 2022, Feminist Press, New York, 2023), and Confetti and Ashes (2025). Head Above Water was longlisted for The Barbellion Prize for Literature. Alshammari teaches literature and has written numerous short stories and creative nonfiction. Her research areas include illness narratives and disability studies. ‘The Literary Mentor: Words for Wellness.’ Some of her publications are under The Literary Mentor imprint as well as masterclasses. Alshammari supports literary appreciation and offers writing workshops and Masterclasses focusing on Reflective and Transformative Writing. She is also a hypnotherapist and guide for mind-body connection. https://shahdalshammari.com/contact daily 0.75 2025-07-31 https://shahdalshammari.com/books daily 0.75 2025-02-27 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60943d56a78cf33e36a5da60/e37918e3-197e-4a95-b81a-d921b3764dc1/Confetti-and-Ashes-original%281%29.jpg Books - A Speculative Memoir Confetti and Ashes: Reflections on Wellness is a speculative memoir that questions what it means to live a good life. Blending personal experiences with the voices of ghosts and a seductive Qareen, this is a meditative exploration of consciousness and the liminal spaces we exist in. Confetti and Ashes is Shahd Alshammari’s second memoir, following the success of Head Above Water. This lyrical narrative is genre-defying, refusing to adhere to conventional ways of narrating stories we carry within our bodies. Multi-layered and in many voices, this is a narrative of memory, disability, and movement. Publisher: The Literary Mentor Words for Wellness https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60943d56a78cf33e36a5da60/1620390369702-S3CWL4Z59ICSZXVHUJAE/cover+head+above+water.jpg Books - An illness narrative and memoir Head Above Water takes us into a space of intimate conversations on illness and society's stigmatization of disabled bodies. We are invited in to ask the big questions about life, loss, and the place of the other. The narrative builds a bridge that reminds us of our common humanity and weaves the threads that tie us all together. Through conversations about women's identities, bodies, and our journeys through life, we arrive at a politics of love, survival, and hope. Publisher: Neem Tree Press Limited, London, United Kingdom and Feminist Press (New York, USA) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60943d56a78cf33e36a5da60/1620390594840-AIH88MMQUXL1FMPACDA9/Notes+on+the+Flesh Books - A Biomythography and collection of stories 'Notes on the Flesh' is a collection of short stories that unravel the intricacies of identity, love, and illness in the Middle East. Unreliably narrated, these are the stories of women and men who have lost the war against patriarchy. Adolescent love, intimacy and familial sacrifices are the shadows that accentuate the unhealable rift between tradition and modernity. Publisher: Faraxa, Malta https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60943d56a78cf33e36a5da60/1620390976891-4NEVNWLRJLW7RQ0JBGEQ/on+love+and+loss.jpg Books - Poetry Collection The poems are snapshots of moments. These moments are bittersweet and nostalgic, liberating, and a jolt to your senses. We are sucked into a world that permits a sense of homelessness, a voice that continues to question society's rules, borders, and boundaries. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60943d56a78cf33e36a5da60/1620391528351-TMIYSSTABN7I7ARE5I9I/literary+madness+cover.jpg Books - Madness in literature This book considers the ways in which madness has been portrayed in writing by women writers. It readdresses the madwoman trope, opening up multiple sites of literary madness, examining places and spaces outside of the madwoman in the attic. https://shahdalshammari.com/writing daily 0.75 2023-01-18 https://shahdalshammari.com/reviews daily 0.75 2025-09-02 https://shahdalshammari.com/interviews daily 0.75 2025-09-02 https://shahdalshammari.com/the-distance-between-us-1 daily 0.75 2025-05-12 https://shahdalshammari.com/new-album daily 0.75 2025-05-12 https://shahdalshammari.com/turquoise-moon-1 daily 0.75 2025-05-12 https://shahdalshammari.com/that-was-then-v1 daily 0.75 2025-05-12