Suleika Jaouad is an American writer, advocate, and motivational speaker.
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Suleika Jaouad is the author of the "Life, Interrupted" column in The New York Times and has written for Vogue, Glamour, NPR's All Things Considered and Women's Health.
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Suleika Jaouad's 2021 memoir Between Two Kingdoms, covering her struggle with leukemia, was a New York Times Best Seller.
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Suleika Jaouad attended the Juilliard School's pre-college program, where she studied the double bass.
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Suleika Jaouad attended Princeton University, where she majored in Near Eastern studies and double-minored in French and gender studies, receiving an AB with highest honors in 2010.
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Suleika Jaouad's story has been featured on NPR's Talk of the Nation, NBC's Weekend Today, and the CBS News, while appearing in The Paris Review, the Los Angeles Times, and Darling magazine, among others.
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Suleika Jaouad's TED Talk, entitled "What almost dying taught me about living," was released in June 2019.
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Suleika Jaouad is married to musician Jon Batiste, with whom she has been in a relationship since 2014.
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Suleika Jaouad survived and has written and spoken extensively about her medical experiences.
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In December 2021, Suleika Jaouad announced that her cancer had returned and she had undergone a second bone marrow transplant.