Suleika Jaouad

Suleika Jaouad

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Suleika Jaouad (pronounced: su-like-uh ja-wad) is a 23-year-old writer, veteran adventurer, and cancer warrior.

A triple citizen, she hails from New York, Tunisia and Switzerland. Since graduating from Princeton University, Suleika has been battling an advanced form of myelodysplastic syndrome (MDS) which has turned into Acute Myeloid Leukemia (AML). She provides advice and a listening ear to people who are affected by life-threatening illnesses.

Suleika Jaouad's interests have brought her around the world. As part of her undergraduate scholarship, she conducted field research on women's rights in Morocco, Tunisia, and Egypt. Her work culminated in her prize-winning thesis, "From the Patriarchal Family to the Patriarchal State: The 'Woman's Question' in Contemporary Tunisian History." One recent summer she worked for Oxfam and the African Union in Ethiopia. After college, she interned for the Center for Constitutional Rights in New York, before moving to Paris, where she worked at a law firm.

Once she is in recovery, Suleika aspires to write a book, adopt a puppy, and throw lavish dinner parties for her incredible friends.

Visit her website at Secrets of Cancerhood.

Email her with questions, thoughts, stories, and your own advice at:

secretsofcancerhood [at] gmail [dot] com

Blog Entries by Suleika Jaouad

10 Ways to Help a Friend With Cancer

23 Comments | Posted February 22, 2012 | 7:30 AM

If it takes a village to raise a child, you might say it also takes one to care for the sick. Cancer is at once personal and communal. Disease lives in the sufferer's body, but the experience of illness is shared, often intimately, by our loved ones. And yet, caring...

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10 Things Not to Say to a Cancer Patient

0 Comments | Posted January 20, 2012 | 7:42 AM

When I was diagnosed with leukemia last May, I couldn't imagine what lay ahead for me. The last eight months may have well been eight years. It's been a blur of blood tests and bone marrow biopsies, fevers and infections. Any cancer patient can tell you that the disease turns...

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Good Afternoon, You Have Cancer

0 Comments | Posted January 10, 2012 | 5:52 PM

One rainy spring morning in Paris, I woke up with flu-like symptoms and decided to take a "me" day from work. Little did I know, I would never return. Three months later -- exactly one year after graduating from college -- I found myself in the oncology ward of a...

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