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Salaam Magazine The 1st Islamic Children’s
Magazine in the USA
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History of Salaam Magazine

One day Esra Nur Sula brought her 16-year-old daughter and friends to the library as a way to inspire them to work and be involved in their community. They all agreed to make a resource for Muslim children. Listen to what happened next, and see how Salaam Magazine started!

Salaam Magazine Writers and Experts

  • Amy A. Ay, PhD in Chemistry
  • Bilgenur Sirin, BA in Psychology, BS in Brain and Cognitive Science
  • Esra Nur Sula, MS in Architecture
  • Fatma S. Bedir, Nature Writer
  • Hande S. Guvenc, Dietician
  • Hannah Bayram, Nurse Practitioner
  • Hatice M. Celenli, Poet, Storyteller, Interviewer
  • Hatice T. Yorukoglu, Turcologist
  • Hope Ali, RN
  • Lisa C. Costanzo, BS in Special Education, MS in Elementary Education, PhD in Bilingual Education
  • Karuna Riazi, MG Author
  • Nahida Esmail, BS in Psychology, MS in Child Development with Early Childhood Education. Her novels have all received CODE’s Burt Award. In 2015, she was honored with the Tanzania Women’s Achievement Award in the Education category.
  • Omer S. Cagdir, Comic Author and Illustrator
  • Refia Bilgic, Environmentalist Writer
  • Saide N. Okutan, Clinical Lab Scientist, MSc, MLS (ASCP)
  • Salah Baazizi, Photographer
  • Semra Coban, BS and MS in Architecture
  • Stevie Welch, RN
  • Zeynep Oksuz, Dental Hygienist
  • Sara K. Alavi, MD, Internist
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Salaam Magazine Youth Team

Salaam Magazine encourages youth to participate in creating its stories. Salaam's Youth Team has been editing, researching specific subjects, and discussing subjects with experts. Our Youth Team continues to write articles and create puzzles for the magazine. It is with their eagerness to learn and share their knowledge that Salaam Magazine has continued to grow.

Mission of Salaam Magazine

Our mission is to create a peaceful world for all children by encouraging them to develop skills with mindfulness and knowledge-driven curiosity. Salaam Magazine is inspired by universal values and ethics that encourage children to seek positive solutions to the world's problems. With our focus on STEM, good morals and knowledge of Islam, we hope to inspire our readers to become leaders who are both strong mentally and spiritually.

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Founder of Salaam Magazine

Esra Nur Sula, a Turkish American, has lived in the United States since 2000. She has a Masters in Architecture. When she moved to the US, she had five children and became a stay-at-home mom – a humbling and challenging vocation she continues to take on proudly. Early on in her career as a parent, she noticed the lack of Islamic resources for children in the US. It was with a great deal of diligence and creativity that she brought the pages of Salaam Magazine to life and among readers across the country and around the globe. Reading, hiking, and exploring nature are Esra’s indispensable love.

Salaam Magazine Production Team

Fatma Zehra Sula

Fatma Zehra Sula

Event Coordinator

Sondos Elhabbal

Sondos Elhabbal

Editor

Bailey Hughes

Bailey Hughes

Senior Editor

Hatice T. Yorukoglu

Hatice T. Yorukoglu

Creative Director

Semra Coban

Semra Coban

Art Director

Amy A. Ay

Amy A. Ay

STEM Consultant

Adile Zaloglu

Adile Zaloglu

Accountant

What our readers have said about Salaam Magazine

Salaam Magazine is a creative tool that I use with my children to Islamically inspire and educate them on an ongoing basis. My children love the content and want me to reread the stories over and over again! They are fascinated by the facts, the comics, and learning the overall message of the content. This is definitely a staple in my children's routine and I am looking forward to using it in their Muslim upbringing.

Belal Elkadri

MUHSEN Certification Manager

Their work is amazing! With each issue being thicker and more professional than the preceding issue. These are truly students we can be proud of and in talking with them, they have set some loft goals for themselves. I’m so glad I had a chance to meet these wonderful young people!

Bill Moehle

Brighton Town Supervisor

I had the pleasure of browsing through Salaam Magazine. I was very impressed by the selection of the academic materials and found them to be very age appropriate for the children. The message was concise and clear,and the design of the pages seemed very attention grabbing for the children. I wish the magazine continued success in their mission.

Tabassam Javed, Ph.D

President of the Islamic Center of Rochester.

Salaam Magazine is a wonderful and beautiful quarterly Islamic magazine. I love how the magazine related everything back to Islam and Allah’s creation. It taught important morals and sunnahs like caring/friendship and being Eco-conscious.

S. Saltagi Safadi

Author

Salaam Magazine has been an incredible resource for my six-year-old son. The articles and activities enable him to learn about Islam while encouraging him to ask questions about the material. It’s fun to read and he looks forward to each issue. Thank you, for this wonderful publication!

Hope Ali

Parent

This magazine is so well done, informative, and FUN! I’m a new Muslim and found it to be a fun way to learn more about Islam. We have a son and think it will be a great way for us to teach him as he grows! We love this magazine, and look forward to each issue as it comes out!

Stevie Ansari

Registered Nurse

Salaam Magazine is a unique magazine my family and I enjoy. My favorite is Asiya's Pearls. Our hope is that my daughter, Asiya, will grow up with these magazines and learn to love the names and attributes of Allah like all the young readers hopefully will. Hopefully parents will use this magazine to inspire their children as we hope to do.

Stergios Zissis

ACNPC-AG, M.Arch, MSN

Salaam Magazine is an amazing magazine for kids. It is created in such a way that kids will learn a lot but also have a lot of fun. The magazine increases our knowledge in greater ways that we can’t imagine. I am 100% sure children will love all the editions of Salaam Magazine. My motto goes exactly with Salaam Magazine: Education is Fun, Play to Learn.

Faatiha Aayat

Child rights and climate activist