The Amirah Stevenson series is about the journey and often humourous adventures of a small Muslim family from Australia. Amirah is a young girl on the threshold of adolescence, and with all of life's complexities has only her father and grandmother to turn for advice.

About the Author:

Selma Cook became a Muslim in 1988 in her native country of Australia. She migrated to Egypt in 1993. Now a mother of five, she works at IslamOnline. 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 series (Islamic stories for children). She has recently published her first Islamic novel for teenagers called ‘Buried Treasure’ which is the first in the ‘Amirah Stevenson series’.

Her interest in Youth work goes back many years. During the first few years after becoming a Muslim, she organized activities for Muslim girls who came from a wide variety of nationalities and backgrounds. In Egypt, she designed and implemented Summer School Programs for teenage girls.

She hopes to facilitate volunteer work and promote the development of services and resources for the youth.