Speakers

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Sheikh yassir fazaga

Sheikh Yassir Fazaga was born in Eritrea in Northeast Africa and moved to the United
States at the age of 15. Sheikh Yassir Fazaga is an inspiring, multi-lingual speaker sought-
after from USA through Canada to the Middle and Far East; has a Bachelors Degree in
Islamic Studies from the Institute of Islamic and Arabic Sciences in Virginia; and received a
Masters Degree in Marriage and Family Counseling from the California State University of
Long Beach.

Sheikh Yassir serves as the Religious Leader of Orange County Islamic Foundation (OCIF)
in Mission Viejo, California. He is the Director of Mental Health Department at Access
California Social Services Agency in Anaheim, where he helps families with different
challenges in life which include: domestic violence issues, communication problems,
marital matters, generational gap, difficult teens, some mental and personality disorders,
divorce, grief, and single parenting, among others.

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Sheikh Yassir has been teaching the Arabic language and Islamic Sciences and offering
Islamic courses on Scriptural Exegesis, and Islamic financial contracts for American Open
University.

Live ethically
Cultivate emotional wisdom
Awaken spiritual vision
Enhance moral intelligence
Manifest purposeful living

imam Azhar subedar

Born in Canada, he grew up and attended school in Ontario. In his early teens, by means
of the prayers of his righteous parents, decided to focus his Life towards serving Islam.

Beginning his studies at an Islamic School in Arabi Louisiana, he later traveled to England
in 1994 and completed the remainder 7 of a 10-year course in attaining an Islamic
Scholarship.

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 Among the many subjects studied, were:

Arabic Etymology
Grammatical Syntax, Phonetics
History and Arabic Philology
Oration lessons, Logic
Jurisprudence and Law, Philosophy, Principles of Jurisprudence
Commentary Literature and Hadith
Exegesis & Hadith
Intensive exposition of Jurisprudence, Rhetorical studies, Hadith & Aqidah literature
(Sihaa e Sitta)
Critical Analysis of language & law, Laws of Inheritance
And much more.

Sheikh kamal el mekki

Br. Kamal is a young dynamic speaker, who serves as the Imam of George Mason
University. Educated at the hands of numerous prominent Islamic scholars from across
the world, he has served as a radio talk show host for the largest Islamic Radio station, and
has been teaching Islamic studies in more than five mosques across the Washington DC
metropolitan area for over four years. His claim to fame is the “How to give a Shahadah in
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10 minutes!”, a vibrant Dawah workshop which has lead to many people accepting Islam
over the past few years.

Kamal el Mekki is also dubbed the Black Belt of Da‘wah. With decades of experience in
the Da‘wah scene, Shaykh Kamal combines his ground-breaking teaching style with his
own dash of humor, certain to leave students feel at ease & entertained, but above all
skilled and empowered.

dr tariq Igram

From Cedar Rapids, Iowa where he was born and raised tracing his family history back to
some of the earliest Muslim settlers in the North America. A graduate from the college of
Shari’ah (Islamic jurisprudence) at the Islamic University of Al-Madinah, he also holds a
masters from the same university specializing in Fiqh. He currently resides in Al-Madinah
with his family.

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