Mohammed Abu Zeinab

Athlete, Brainstormer, Change Agent, Entrepreneur, Event planner, Idea generator, Life mentor, Muslim, Promoter, Student

Mohammed Abu Zeinab (TPR‘09) is the founder of the sports events & management company, TINKOpp. Prior to which Mohammed was managing public relations, events and marketing for the Aspire Zone Foundation. The organization has a dual mission of training Qatar’s athletes to a global standard and promoting a sporting lifestyle in the community. As part of his duties, Mohammed coordinated Manchester United’s First Team during their four-day training camp, and has hosted Sandro Rossel, President of Barcelona Football Club and tennis star John McEnroe. Mohammed helped promote the world’s largest humanitarian football talent search, which spanned three continents, 16 countries, 832 stadiums and 620,000 children. Mohammed has always been involved in sports. He has practiced Martial Arts since the age of four, and currently competes as part of Qatar’s sole Muay Thai team. While at Carnegie Mellon, Mohammed founded the first Health & Fitness Club, and was involved in student government and community outreach programs. As president of the Qatar Alumni Association, Mohammed hopes to give back to Carnegie Mellon and build a fully-fledged chapter in Doha. Mohammed sees his future role as an ambassador for sport in the region.

Boarding a rescue boat that has room only for those with purpose for myself, and for those who do not; showing them that they can, showing that you are limitless. And that EVERYONE has a boat to fill.

How can you have a school or teach a martial art depict void of all forms and artless? Jeet Kune Do's (JKD) legacy and continuation is in a mindset of flexibility, but in a new term or definition of flexibility different to the mainstream preconception of most; that is flexibility not being how bendy a person is or that they can split but the range between tension, strength or contraction and tensile, relaxation and elasticity and moving fluidly between both degrees in the assimilation of many other martial arts through your individual expression where you no longer practice or study the art as much as you become the artist or become the master of your dojo as part of the class. Mastering yourself as an instructor or master's instruction can only go so far, to a certain point where beyond that the reigns of life and learning become yours to own in mastering yourself, in conquering your ego, in letting yourself go to that expression that is truly and uniquely yours. This is my idea and

I was invited to participate and contribute with a TEDx talk on sports as part of TEDxYouth@Doha commemorating the United Nations Universal Children’s Day by my curator friend Yasser Khan. I tailored my talk around the theme of sports and events to answer a pressing question in the current context of events taking place in the lead up to Qatar's hosting of the 2022 World Cup; Do sports breed events, or do events breed sports? My audience was primarily middle school, high school and college students. And I was speaking alongside a very humbling onslaught of key decision makers in our environment from royal family members to key government legislators, to highly followed motivational speakers, to highly accomplished and accelerated young philanthropists and social changers and industry champions in the likes of Sir Frank Williams from the Williams F1 team.