Salma Abdelnour Gilman
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Salma Abdelnour Gilman

Writer and Editor

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About

Salma Abdelnour Gilman is a writer and editor focusing on travel, food, and health, among other topics. She’s been an editor at NBC News Digital, Food & Wine, and O, The Oprah Magazine, and has written for The New York Times, Parents magazine, and many other outlets. In 2022, she won a First Place award for Diversity in Digital Features from the Society for Features Journalism for her Everyday Health story, "Too Many Doctors Are Misdiagnosing Disease on Skin of Color."
Abdelnour Gilman is the author of the travel memoir Jasmine and Fire: A Bittersweet Year in Beirut, and wrote a chapter about later-in-life motherhood for the anthology Tick Tock: Essays on Becoming a Parent After 40.

She received a bachelor's degree in philosophy from the University of California at Berkeley, and currently works at the City University of New York’s Graduate School of Journalism. She lives in Brooklyn with her husband and two kids.

Education

  • Bachelor of Arts (B.A.) in Philosophy, University of California at Berkeley

Book & Media Recommendations

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Breath: The New Science of a Lost Art
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Don't Just Sit There

Latest Work

Latest contributions from Salma Abdelnour Gilman, in Coronavirus, Health Disparities, Ovarian Cancer, Psoriatic Arthritis