Faculty

The heart of the Zaytuna Summer Arabic Intensive program is the faculty. Zaytuna recruits teachers who are not only deeply grounded in the Arabic language, but also effective communicators who have proven their merit in a number of pedagogical situations. A core tenet of our teaching philosophy is that knowledge resides in the hearts of humans, and not in the lines of books.

The 2008 Arabic Intensive program featured a diverse faculty that included Abdullah bin Hamid Ali, a resident scholar at Zaytuna Institute and a graduate of the University of Qarawiyyin in Fes, Morocco; Dawood Yasin, who pursued his formal studies of Islam and Arabic for five years in Damascus, Syria, and previously taught Arabic at Yale University; and Usama Canon, who studied in Morocco and Egypt and is currently the head instructor at Zaytuna Institute’s quarterly Arabic language program.

Please continue to check our website for announcements about our Summer 2009 faculty.

“The command of the Arabic language that the teachers here have may be greater than that of some of the professors I’ve had teach me in other universities.”

—Mohsin Ali, Level 2 student

The Zaytuna Summer Arabic Intensive