Early Life
Bajrami was born in the summer of 1980 in Tuzla, then a part of Yugoslavia and presently in Bosnia. Her father Fadil (born 1957) is an Albanian who moved to Bosnia in 1965 from the town of Đakovica in south western Kosovo, while her mother Enesa (born 1960) is a Bosnian Muslim from the town of Tuzla. Selma has a sister Fahira (born 1977) and brother Enes (born 1984).
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