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Podcast: Read And Write With Natasha
Episode: Living with rare physical disorder: Palestinian author tells his story
Description: Dr. Hani Q. Khoury was born in Nablus, Palestine, in 1965 with a rare and progressive physical disorder known as Spinal Muscular Atrophy, a neuromuscular disease that sentenced him to an electric wheelchair at the age of 18.Despite his disability, he decided to come to America to complete his higher education. He is now a Professor of Mathematics at Mercer University in Georgia.He is the author of the autobiography Giving up is not an option: Memoirs of a Palestinian American.In this interview, we talked about:His life with a...