About Us
Meet the Team
Ustadhah Zenab Hamdan
is Chadian native born and raised in the Holy City of AlMadinah in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. She memorized the Quran in two years, concluding at the tender age of 12. She started teaching Tajweed and Quran at the age of 18 and never looked back!
She went on later to get certified in teacher training courses in AlMadinah. She also taught at an International Isalmic studies school for women that overlooked Uhud Mountain. She taught Quran and Islamic studies to many nationalities ranging from Japanese, Russian, American, Nigerian, and Indonesian; giving her the privilege to learn and understand the unique challenges that each dialect may have in reciting the Quran.
Before her departure to America in 2011, she had the opportunity to manage a Quran memorization school with further strengthened her leadership and administration skills.
She later co-founded her own Islamic school in Houston. TX for kids whose primary focus was recitation, memorization,and understanding of the Quran.
Sh. Abdullah Oduro
Ustadhah Zaynab
is the co-founder and principal of Al-Tibyaan Academy, located in College Park, Maryland. She memorized the Qur’an and its seven different qira’aat at a Qur’an school in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, where she was also born and raised. Ustadhah Zaynab has over 20 years of experience teaching the Qur’an and its related sciences of tajweed and tafsir.
Ustadh Mujahid Keith
is the co-founder and teacher at Al-Tibyaan Academy located in College Park,Maryland. He is a graduate of the College of Hadith at the Islamic University of Medina in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. Mujahid is a khateeb, lecturer, and teacher in the local masajid in the Baltimore, Washington, metropolitan area.
After studying for 8 years in Madinah, when I came back to Texas, I realized how my joints were hurting, how I was not feeling a lot of energy and was overweight. So I started going to the gym with a friend who showed me how to lift. I immediately felt different; much sharper, more cleaner, and much more energetic. After this, I knew it was a portion of his life that I needed to do in order to feel better and younger. I believe you learn your reality through physicality. By consistently challenging yourself, I learn more about myself through physically exerting myself.
I love to help men unleash things that they didn't know about themselves or that they knew and suppressed. That through the learning of your reality through physicality, you unleash that beast. It allows them to learn more about themselves, when they do that physical exertion, while at the same time learning about their nature, which is a beast, a man, a male. My goal is to help my students be the best men they can be on this earth and allow them to flourish and help others.
