Notes On The Flesh

In our next meeting we will have Dr. Shahad to discuss with us her book "Notes One The Flesh". Dr Shahd Alshammari is a Kuwaiti author holds a PhD from the University of Kent (UK) and teaches literature. Her research interests focus on madwomen in different literatures, including Victorian, post-colonial, and Bedouin. Alshammari is especially interested in the concept of hybridity, having been born to a Bedouin father and a Palestinian mother. She is also interested in Disability Studies and the correlation of disability studies with identity in the Arab world, having been diagnosed with Multiple Sclerosis at the age of 18.

'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.

location:

Millennium Hotel is very well known located in 4th Ring Road, Salmiya Abou Thar Al Ghafari St., Salmiya, (you can see the building from high way Road 30). the meeting will be in the Library Café - ground floor.