Najah Shuqair

About the Author Najah Shuqair

Twenty years ago, my life turned upside down when I learned I had breast cancer. To fill my time with
positve thinking, I started writng. I found a writng club in my city which was there for over forty years.
The group encouraged me to write; I published my first book, Enter My Heart: Poems For The Soul, in
2008.

Even though I have been writng since I was ten years old, life in Jordan differs from Canada. There was
no encouragement to write in my family for girls or even boys, but my mom fought for me to stay in
school to learn more about writng.

My mother was a storyteller. I remember when we were young, my mother encouraged us girls to sit and help her prepare meals that took so much time to prepare. She used to tell us stories that her dad told her and her siblings in winter time.

My mom taught me how to sew, knit and needlepoint. I learned to cook like her. Everything she made was so delicious.

I took more sewing, knittng, crochetng, drawing, paintng, and photography courses in Canada. I learned to make bead jewellery, bracelets, necklaces, and earrings. I gave some of these as gifts. I made a buterfly with a needlepoint.

I loved volunteering and helping others. I started volunteering at our local hospital. The city where I live has given me lots since I came to Canada from Jordan. To give back, I am donatng half of each of my published book’s proceeds to one of the non-profit organizatons in the city.

I joined Toastmasters in 2014, and in 2023, I received the Distnguished Toastmasters award. It feels so great to achieve one of my goals. I belong to three writng clubs, which encourage me to keep writng.

Since COVID 2019, I have had an Instant Pot pressure cooker. Before COVID, I only used it to cook meat because it cooks delicious meals, but I did not know that I could use this pressure cooker to cook other meals. I learned from YouTube how to use it for my Arabic recipes. Since then, I have cooked most of my recipes in the Instant Pot pressure cooker. It made my life easy and fast.

I published my first cookbook, Quick and Easy Cookbook: A Recipe and a Poem. Young people who bought my cookbook encouraged me to show them how I cook the recipes; I ended up creatng a YouTube cooking channel, Najah Shuqair Canadian Kitchen. Also, I made a TikTok video cooking app to share my cooking recipes with the public.

Najah Shuqair Canadian Kitchen

My name is Najah Shuqair from Canada. My passion is cooking and writing. This cooking channel is for anyone who likes to try Arabic food and save time in cooking. There are lots of Vegan recipes in this channel. All recipes are quick, easy, simple, healthy, and delicious. Try these recipes and you will love them. Follow me and subscribe to my channel by activating the bell: Follow Me & Subscribe Please.

Najah Shuqair (@najahshuqair) | TikTok

Najah Shuqair (@najahshuqair) on TikTok | 127 Likes. 40 Followers. A great cook, poet and author. Watch the latest video from Najah Shuqair (@najahshuqair). TikTok Videos