Youth Directors
A longtime resident of Canton, Osama grew up in an Arab Ameri-can family with Palestinian roots. Seeking higher education, his father and mother, Hassan Odeh and Yamamah Sawalha moved to the United States where they established themselves in 1990. In 2001 they settled in Plymouth, Michigan where they have remained since. Osama began attending Islamic…
Our new youth Director, Hanan Al-shahly, comes to us originally from the Ann Arbor community where she served as one the head mentors in the youth community for several years. She completed her bachelor’s degree in biochemistry at Eastern Michigan University in 2014 and plans on completing her Masters in Social Work this Fall. She has experience…