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Who is Wael?

Wael Abdelgawad is the founder, designer, editor, and administrator of Zawaj.com.

Wael was born and raised in California, USA. His parents, who are of Egyptian origin, are highly respected scientists who taught him the importance of scholarship. All through his childhood he read voraciously. When not reading, he played table tennis and chess, boxed and did martial arts, and consumed Mars bars and Pepsis. He began studying Islam at the age of fifteen. He was a counselor at the Muslim Youth Camp at the age of seventeen, served on the Shura Council of Masjid Fresno at nineteen, and later he was the Imam in Tucson, Arizona, and the Na'ib Imam in Fort Worth, Texas. He attended California State University at Fresno, and he has taught Islamic Studies in several Muslim communities. He later studied web design and webmastering with the Software Training Group in San Francisco. Wael is now a web designer and IT consultant by trade and is the editor of this website. He is also a writer, poet and artist.

In addition to his duties with Zawaj.com, Wael is currently the President of American Web Works, a web development firm catering to small companies and non-profit organizations.

Wael is married and lives in Oakland, California, with his lovely wife. He likes marble fudge ice cream, and once held his breath for two minutes underwater.