Background

Nadine Jolie Courtney was born as Nadine Haobsh on August 23, 1980, in New York City, New York, United States. She is the daughter of a Jordanian-Circassian father and a Catholic cheerleader from Florida who converted to Islam when she and Nadine Jolie Courtney's father got married. She has brother Pierre Haobsh.

Nadine Jolie Courtney wrote her first poem when she was four.

Education

Nadine Jolie Courtney attended Milton High School and Cate School. She graduated from Barnard College with a Bachelor of Arts degree in English and European Studies in 2002.

Career

Nadine Jolie Courtney began her career after receiving a degree from college. She wrote as a beauty editor for FHM, Lucky, and Ladies' Home Journal. In 2005 she began writing as a travel, beauty, and royalty writer. Her work appeared in Town & Country, Vanity Fair online, and Vogue online, and she has been profiled in the New York Times, Vogue, Cosmo, and Allure. She also contributed to Town & Country, Vogue, Oprah Magazine, Architectural Digest, Robb Report, GQ, and Angeleno. She has appeared on CNN, MSNBC, Fox News, and Bravo. From 2005 till 2007, Courtney worked as a business consultant to 10-goal polo player Carlos Gracida and in 2006 was a Creative Consultant to Sarah, Duchess of York.

In 2007 she published her first book Beauty Confidential: The No Preaching, No Lies, Advice-You'll- Actually-Use Guide to Looking Your Best under her maiden name Haobsh. In this book, the author provides tips and product suggestions in chapters broken down to cover beauty topics from head to toe. In 2009, the book Confessions of a Beauty Addict was published. Her first young adult novel Romancing the Throne was published in 2017.

Nadine Jolie Courtney's recent book is All-American Muslim Girl (2019). All-American Muslim Girl is designed as a tonic for other confused or curious cross-cultural kids, eager to finally embrace their own heritage. It's a young adult novel born of her own experiences as a white-passing mixed-race Muslim in Georgia. The book is full of a variety of young Muslim women who interpret the religion in vastly different ways and enjoy respectfully debating those disparate views.

In 2015, she appeared on season 2 of Bravo's reality documentary television series Newlyweds: The First Year with her husband Erik Courtney. She is an active online-blogger on Twitter and Instagram as well.

Achievements

• Nadine Jolie Courtney's work was published in various publications. She is recognized for her books Beauty Confidential and All-American Muslim Girl.

Works

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  • All-American Muslim Girl

    (Allie Abraham has it all going for her - she's a straight...)

    2019
  • Confessions of a Beauty

    (Bella Hunter may be down but she's not out yet - and she'...)

    2009
  • Romancing the Throne

    (For the first time ever, the Weston sisters are at the sa...)

    2017
  • Beauty Confidential: The No Preaching, No Lies, Advice-You'll-Actually-Use-Guide to Looking Your Best

    (Forget celebrity trends and complicated how-to books. In ...)

    2007

Views

Courtney examines matters of subtle and blatant Islamophobia, privilege and erasure, and questions of faith and identity with a sensitivity born of experience and respect. She is a believer that compassion and education can make the world a better place.

Quotations: "When you’re a marginalized teenager, maybe somebody who’s occasionally ill at ease around your peers, books can be your safe haven - a place where you can lose yourself and forget about whatever issues you’re going through, if briefly."

"I love writing for young adults - and particularly 16-year-old characters - because it’s such a unique time in your life. You’re nearly an adult in look, manner, dress, attitude…and yet, there’s still something so childlike and vulnerable there. It’s the quintessential moment when you’re caught between two worlds."

"Sometimes I feel like the only writer who doesn’t listen to music when they work! In a perfect world, my writing space is completely silent, with zero distractions. Of course, in real life, it rarely works out that way. At this moment, my daughter is in the next room with the TV blaring the cartoon version of Aladdin."

"Writing is like a muscle; the more you flex it, the stronger you’ll be."

Personality

Nadine Jolie Courtney studied Arabic for five years and can read and write it. She is conversant in Italian and Spanish and fluent in French.

One of her favorite things is going with her husband to the park on a Sunday afternoon to sip coffee and watch their daughter play soccer.

Physical Characteristics: Nadine Jolie Courtney has blonde hair and green eyes.

Interests

• Music & Bands

  Tom Petty, Pearl Jam, The Beach Boys, The Foo Fighters, Amr Diab, and Nancy Ajram

Connections

Nadine Jolie Courtney married Erik Courtney on November 23, 2013. They have a daughter Aurelia Nancy Courtney.

Brother:

Pierre Haobsh

On March 25, 2016, Pierre Haobsh was arrested on suspicion of murdering a Chinese herbalist, his wife and 5-year-old daughter in Santa Barbara, California.

husband:

Erik Courtney

Erik Courtney is an American filmmaker who worked in feature development at James Cameron's Lightstorm Entertainment. He wrote and directed a four-minute real-time IMAX short film called The Persistence of Dreams. Courtney won the Grand Prize at the Seattle Science Fiction Fantasy Short Film Festival for his film Forecast, which was also selected in September 2008 to open the Santa Monica Film Festival. As a visual effects artist, Courtney has worked on films including Red Riding Hood, Hitchcock, The Tourist, City of Ember, and Apocalypto.

Daughter:

Aurelia Nancy Courtney