FUSHIYA

About Fushiya

Why a year.

Classical Arabic is not a weekend project. Fushiya is built for the pace the language actually asks for.

I started Fushiya because I watched too many sincere students stall out at the same place. They could read the script, they had memorized vocabulary, but classical Arabic grammar was still an opaque wall. They would try another app, another book, another half-structured course, and they would quit around week six.

The problem was never the students. It was the shape of the programs they were in.

Classical Arabic rewards steady exposure over twelve months far more than it rewards a sprint across six weeks. You need grammar introduced, practiced, tested, and then re-met the next month in a slightly harder text. You need the rhythm of weekly homework returned with real feedback. You need a cohort that keeps you honest when a week gets heavy.

That is what Fushiya is. A clear twelve-month arc. One price. One cohort. Live classes, recordings, weekly graded work, monthly exams, and a teacher who actually reads your homework.

By the end of the year, you will read a line of classical prose, recognize the voweling without seeing it, parse the structure, and understand what the author meant. That is the outcome. The rest is the work.

Teaching philosophy

Three things I hold to.

Clarity over cleverness

Every grammar point gets explained in plain language before it gets named in Arabic. Jargon comes second, understanding first.

Honest feedback

Your homework gets real feedback, not a smiley face. If something is off, I will say so — and show you the repair.

Finishable pace

We move at a pace that a working adult can actually sustain for twelve months. The program is designed to be finished, not survived.

العِلْمُ صَيْدٌ وَالكِتَابَةُ قَيْدُهُ

“Knowledge is quarry; writing is its binding.”