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Selma A. Cook is managing editor of the Youth Section and Volunteer Youth Resource Network at IslamOnline. [1]
| This article needs to be updated.(March 2024) |
Selma A. Cook is managing editor of the Youth Section and Volunteer Youth Resource Network at IslamOnline. [1]
Selma A. Cook became a Muslim in 1988 in her native country of Australia. [2] She migrated to Egypt in 1993. [3]
She has written a book about her journey to Islam called The Miracles of My Life, an Islamic poetry book called The Light of Submission, as well as the Miss Moppy [4] series (Islamic stories for children).
She wrote her first Islamic novel for teenagers called Buried Treasure, which is the first in the ‘Amirah Stevenson series'. [5] She writes articles and poetry on her Website The Islamic Garden. [6]
She works[ when? ] for Hoda, a Cairo-based satellite channel. [2]
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