Shaykh Waleed Basyouni has graduated with a Bachelors degree in Islamic Sciences from Al-Imam Muhammad University in Saudi Arabia, and then went on to complete a Masters in Islamic Theology, World Religions and Modern Religious Sect. He is currently working on his PhD Coursework in Theology.

Shaykh Waleed is involved in various organizations and projects; he is an instructor at the American Open University in Alexandria, USA and serves as the Imam of Clear Lake Islamic Center in Houston. He is a frequent guest speaker at Universities, Conventions, Radio Talk Shows, Television, Interfaith meetings, and community centres nationally and internationally. He is also a member of the North American Imam Federation (NAIF), Assembly of Muslim Jurists in America (AMJA)-Fatwa and Research Committee, Director of Texas Dawah Convention, and advisor to numerous Islamic societies/organisations around the United States.

Shaykh Waleed has Ijaazahs in reciting the Holy Quran and in several books of Hadeeth, awarded by various scholars. Shaykh Waleed has had the opportunity of studying under some of the notable Scholars of our time namely Shaykh Ibn Baaz, Shaykh Abdur-Razzaque Afify, Shaykh Ibn Jibreen, Shaykh Al-Barrak and many others. He has been involved in Da`wah for the last 15 years in Saudi Arabia, United States and Canada.