Biography and responsibilities
Profile overview
Sheikh Ibrahim Youssef Hussein was born in Aita Al Fakhar in Rashaya District in 1964. He graduated from Azhar of Lebanon in 1984, then studied at Dar Al-Fatwa’s Faculty of Islamic Sharia in Beirut, formerly the Faculty of Da’wah, between 1984 and 1986.
He worked in religious and Islamic education. In 2011, he was appointed as a reserve Islamic-education teacher in public schools under the Religious Education Authority. He was later appointed assistant educational supervisor and subsequently assumed educational-supervision responsibilities. He participated in more than fifty training courses for Islamic-education teachers and helped organize training programmes in several endowments directorates across Lebanon’s governorates.
He has a long record of service as an imam, Friday preacher and religious worker. He served at Aita Al Fakhar Mosque from 2003 to 2015. In 2015, he moved to Al-Bireh Mosque in Rashaya District, where he continues to serve as imam and Friday preacher.
He has also participated in community and religious work in the area. He served as secretary of the Aita Al Fakhar Mosque Committee from 1996 to 2000, has been a member of the General Assembly of the Zakat Fund in the Bekaa for more than ten years, and has contributed to organizing community and religious activities and seminars.
