SPECIAL GUEST: Nadine Jolie Courtney is welcomed by Suhein Beck to share her experience growing up and finding her identity as a Circassian, American, Muslim Teenager in high school here in the United States.

She talks about how she struggled to find her own personal spiritual calling and her own voice and gained the courage to proclaim her faith. This fictionalized young adult novel is set in parallel experiences close to her own confusing world raised by a Circassian father from Jordan, a Catholic mother in America in a predominantly Methodist community in the heart of the South in America during tumultuous times!

Her book, ALL AMERICAN MUSLIM GIRL, is now available everywhere.
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Nadine Jolie Courtney is the author of ALL-AMERICAN MUSLIM GIRL (FSG), named one of Kirkus's Best YA Books of 2019, as well as the contemporary YA novel ROMANCING THE THRONE. Her first two books for women, BEAUTY CONFIDENTIAL and CONFESSIONS OF A BEAUTY ADDICT, were published under her maiden name Nadine Haobsh by Avon/HarperCollins.

Dubbed "the poster child for the blogger generation" by the New York Post, Nadine created one of the first beauty blogs in 2005, and was formerly a beauty editor at Lucky and Ladies' Home Journal magazines. As a beauty, travel, and royalty writer, her work has appeared in Town & Country, Cosmo, ELLE, Glamour, GQ, Robb Report, Vogue online, Vanity Fair online, and Bazaar online.

She is a Muslim, a Circassian-American, a mom, and a believer that compassion and education can make the world a better place.

An avid royal watcher, she is still waiting for her invitation to Buckingham Palace.

Awards
Kirkus Reviews: ALL-AMERICAN MUSLIM GIRL, a Best YA Book of 2019