Few, if any, illness narratives written by Arab women exist in the world of literature. Women of colour continue to face racial bias when it comes to being believed by medical professionals, and barriers when it comes to pain assessment and pain management. This makes Kuwaiti academic and writer Dr Shahd Alshammari’s newly released book Head Above Water, a reflection on her life with MS (multiple sclerosis), a welcome addition to the genre of illness narratives written by women of colour. "I have read so many illness narratives but I haven’t read anything that is Arab or written by an Arab woman" Dr Alshammari is only in her mid-thirties, so you may wonder why she h
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