Join MCC Youth Activities Facilitator Sidi Quran Hodge for weekly Friday evening basketball & halaqa sessions for teen high school boys from 9th through 12th grade.
These sessions aim to craft our next generation of confident, faithful Muslim men. These halaqas are for only teens ages 14-18—no younger boys. The sessions are capped at 30 teens. Once limited spots are full, please join the waitlist.
Pizza is included each week. The first hour is physical activities in the gym (basketball, flag football, or soccer), and the latter hour is a teen halaqa with Sidi Quran.
7 p.m. to 9 p.m. | Fridays | Sep. 20, 2024 to May 23, 2025 (with a break in Ramadan ‘25) | $400/person | Register at mcceastbay.org/boys
The MCC has a standing policy that financial need should never hold a family in the East Bay from benefiting from any offering at the MCC facility. To request a financial waiver, please complete the application at mcceastbay.org/scholarship
Location of Friday evening sessions for high school boys in ‘24 and ‘25:
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- – September 20, 2024, at MCC East Bay
- – September 27, 2024, at MCC East Bay
- – October 4, 2024, at Donlon Elementary in Pleasanton
- – October 11, 202, at Donlon Elementary in Pleasanton
- – October 18, 2024, at Donlon Elementary in Pleasanton
- – October 25, 2024, at Donlon Elementary in Pleasanton
- – November 1, 2024, at Donlon Elementary in Pleasanton
- – November 8, 2024, at Donlon Elementary in Pleasanton
- – November 15, 2024, at Donlon Elementary in Pleasanton
- – November 22, 2024, at Donlon Elementary in Pleasanton
- – November 29, 2024 (no session)
- – December 6, 2024, at Donlon Elementary in Pleasanton
- – December 13, 2024, at Fairlands Elementary School in Pleasanton
- – December 20, 2024, at Donlon Elementary in Pleasanton
- – December 27, 2024 (no session)
- – January 3, 2025, at MCC East Bay
- – January 10, 2025, location TBA
- – January 17, 2025, location TBA
- – January 24, 2025, location TBA
- – January 31, 2025, location TBA
- – February 7, 2025, location TBA
- – February 14, 2025, location TBA
- – February 21, 2025, location TBA (last session before Ramadan 2025)
- – February 28, 2025 (no session)
- – March 7, 2025 (no session)
- – March 14, 2025 (no session)
- – March 21, 2025 (no session)
- – March 28, 2025 (no session)
- – April 4, 2025, at MCC East Bay
- – April 11, 2025, location TBA
- – April 18, 2025, location TBA
- – April 25, 2025, location TBA
- – May 2, 2025, location TBA
- – May 9, 2025, location TBA
- – May 16, 2025, location TBA
- – May 23, 2025, location TBA
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About Sidi Quran
Qur’an Hodge is a Bay Area native. He began his Islamic education in 2019, studying Arabic at the Al Maqasid Seminary in Pennsylvania. Sidi Quran continued to Dar Al Mustafa, a Yemeni Islamic university in Tarim, Hadhramaut. At this Islamic seminary founded by Habib Umar bin Hafiz, Sidi Qur’an studied Ibtidaiyya, Hadith, Aqida, Seerah, Nahw, Quran Hifzdh, Kitaba, and Tafseer in classical Arabic.
Sidi Quran has completed certificates in Taleef Collective’s Refining the Core and Zaytuna College’s Permaculture Program. He is passionate about creatively working on community issues, particularly the challenges Muslim youth face. He lives with his wife and child in Castro Valley.
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