Sheikh Mohammed Awal, founder & Director of Zaitun Dawah Institute (ZDI), a think tank research center with headquarters in Seattle Washington State USA, and branches in NY, Atlanta, Nigeria, and Ghana.

Sheikh Awal is a scholar in Islamic Sciences, Comparative Religion and logic. He is an Islamic apologist, a debater, a motivational speaker and a prolific writer. He holds a diploma in Agric. Science and Irrigation Engineering from College of Irrigation and Surveying, and a degree from the prestigious Kaduna Polytechnic College of Environmental Studies both In Nigeria. He also bags a diploma in logic and philosophy from Seattle Institute of Advanced Studies.