My Touch & Feel Alif Baa Taa

Yasmin Mussa

Yasmin Mussa is the Co-Founder of Learning Roots and currently serves as a Director, helping to grow the business as one of the world’s leading Muslim publishers for children. Having authored several best-selling children’s books, she has also helped pioneer an Arabic language curriculum program that continues to benefit thousands of children worldwide.

Yasmin has a formidable track record in education leadership, spanning 20 years, having founded two Islamic supplementary schools and earlier served as Head of Department at four educational institutions. She continues to help support and grow the Islamic Education sector through her consultancy work.

Outside education, Yasmin’s pursuits include founding an award-winning Baby Accessories brand and a coveted culinary service. Yasmin’s proudest achievement, however, is raising her four children with the support of her husband in the green suburbs of London.

Zaheer Khatri

Zaheer Khatri founded Learning Roots in the winter of 2004 and has been at the helm of the company ever since. He has steered Learning Roots to an established position in their publishing niche with international acclaim and reach in over 30 countries. He has also had the pleasure of personally authoring some of our bestselling children’s storybooks.

Prior to Learning Roots, He was a Mathematics Teacher at a Secondary School in London and a Special Project Coordinator at an FE College before that. He also served as a Head Master at a private primary school along the way!

He is a graduate of the London School of Economics, with a major in Maths and Economics. He followed that with a Post Graduate Certificate in Education which started his career in education. Zaheer then completed a Masters in Curriculum, Pedagogy and Assessment which gave him a thorough grounding in the field of Education.

Zaheer is currently living in London with his wife and four children. When he is not keeping busy with running, reading or writing, you might just find Zaheer on nature trails up craggy mountains.