My Visit to Nile Center and Sibawayh
First we visited Nile Center. Cute modest little building, we saw the women’s campus only. Took while to arrive there after a series of confusing directions. They are unable to offer private classes for the summer due to a shortage of teachers.
Right around the corner from it is Sibwayh. Very friendly, they came and met us at Masjid Musa bin Nusayr and escorted us to the center. Friendly people and very helpful. Right away they started offering to find other female students that come from our area so we could walk to school in groups. I found this to be unique about the center, and very admirable (that they offered that right away without us requesting it) They offer a number of private Islamic Studies classes too for advanced Arabic students although I know very little about the qualifications of the teachers for those subjects. I should have asked more.
I took my cousin to check out those two centers for classes, but at the end of the day she’s leaning towards joining Markaz Fajr.
as-salaamu’alaikum,
Can I ask, why is she leaning towards Fajr over a place like Nile? My friend studied in Nile and said good things about it but I would love to know why is Fajr possibly better?
Barakullaahu feekum
Wa `alaykum assalaam Isa,
She did decide to stick with Fajr Center and that’s because Nile Center could not offer her private classes due to a shortage of teachers..and she preferred not to take group classes.
She is very pleased with Fajr Center so far and her only complaint is that is costs a lot more than Nile Center would have.
Fajr Center is possibly better because it has the most number of branches and the Medinat Nasr branch alone can accommodate a large number of students (they are currently holding classes in 3 different buildings this summer, that’s how many students they have..!) Masha’Allah