Suleika Jaouad

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Suleika Jaouad
NationalityAmerican
EducationPrinceton University
Spouse(s)
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(m. 2022)​

Suleika Jaouad (/suːˈlaɪkə dʒəˈwɑːd/ soo-LAY-kə jə-WAHD;[1] Arabic: سليكة جواد) is an American writer, advocate, and motivational speaker.[2] She is the author of the "Life, Interrupted" column in The New York Times and has also written for Vogue, Glamour, NPR's All Things Considered and Women's Health. Her 2021 memoir Between Two Kingdoms was a New York Times Best Seller.

When Jaouad was diagnosed with cancer in 2011, doctors said she had only a 35% chance of surviving in the long-run.[3] She survived, and has written and spoken extensively about her medical experiences. Her Emmy Award-winning column, "Life, Interrupted" was part of the New York Times Well blog.[4]

Personal life

Suleika Jaouad graduated from Princeton University in 2010.[5] Jaouad travels around the US teaching writing and wellness workshops and she speaks at high schools, universities, hospitals, corporations, fund-raisers and professional events. Jaouad has been featured on NPR's Talk of the Nation, NBC's Weekend Today, CBS News, The Paris Review, the Los Angeles Times and Darling magazine, among others.[6] Her TED Talk titled "What almost dying taught me about living" was released in June 2019.[7]

Jaouad is married to musician Jon Batiste, with whom she has been in a relationship since 2014.[1] According to a 2012 New York Times wellness article, Life, Interrupted, which she chronicled her experiences as a young adult with cancer on a weekly basis, Jaouad wrote she first met Batiste as a teenager in band camp.[8] In April 2022, the couple revealed in a television interview that they had been secretly married in February 2022.[9]

Publications

  • Between Two Kingdoms (2021)[1]

References

  1. ^ a b c Jaouad, Suleika (2021). Between Two Kingdoms (1st ed.). New York: Random House. ISBN 978-0-399-58858-7. LCCN 2021-289350. OCLC 1105148693.
  2. ^ Horgan, Richard (October 3, 2013). "Suleika Jaouad's Life Joyfully Interrupted by Emmy Awards". Adweek. Archived from the original on May 30, 2015. Retrieved April 3, 2022.
  3. ^ "Jon Batiste Girlfriend, Is He Married Amid Gay Rumors? Answer's Here". LIVERAMPUP. January 9, 2019. Retrieved February 14, 2021.
  4. ^ "AAMC 2014: 'Life, Interrupted' author Suleika Jaouad gives a voice to oncology tweens". uofuhealth.utah.edu. Retrieved February 14, 2021.
  5. ^ Klein, Julia M. (January 2021). "How Writer Suleika Jaouad '10 Journeyed from Sickness to Health". Princeton Alumni Weekly.
  6. ^ "Life Resumes: Looking Ahead With Suleika Jaouad". NPR.org. Retrieved July 1, 2019.
  7. ^ Jaouad, Suleika (April 2019). "What almost dying taught me about living". TED. Retrieved July 1, 2019.
  8. ^ Jaouad, Suleika (May 24, 2012). "Life, Interrupted: The Beat Goes On". New York Times. Retrieved April 4, 2022.
  9. ^ Morgan, David (April 3, 2022). "Jon Batiste, Suleika Jaouad announce they were secretly married". CBS News. Retrieved April 3, 2022.

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