durusi:
عربي

Our purpose

Why we exist

The best person to teach a struggling student is often someone who sat the same exam a few years ago.

Durusi started in Dubai in 2023 on that one observation, built by students, for students. Private tutoring in the UAE ran on word of mouth and guesswork: finding a tutor meant scrolling endless WhatsApp groups and taking a chance on an unverified stranger. We built something a family can actually check: a UAE-registered business, mentors we vet and match by hand, and a progress note sent to you after every lesson.

Durusi means “my lessons” in Arabic. The lessons belong to the student, and the name says so in the language families here speak at home.

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Our principles

What we believe

The Dubai Frame standing over the city
  • Fit beats credentials

    A mentor your child connects with will outperform a stranger with a longer CV. We match personality first, subject mastery a very close second.

  • Parents deserve visibility

    You should never wonder what you’re paying for. Every lesson ends with a progress note sent straight to you.

  • Results, fast

    Most students see a real difference within weeks. If something isn’t working, we change the plan or change the mentor, free.

  • Vetted by hand

    Every mentor gives us a police clearance certificate, sometimes called a certificate of good conduct, before their first lesson, and we hold it on file. They come from the UAE’s leading universities and we match them by hand. No open marketplace, no unverified strangers.

Mahmoud and Mohamed Noureldin, the twin brothers who founded Durusi, standing side by side in a library
Mahmoud and Mohamed Noureldin, the twin brothers behind Durusi.

Our story

Two brothers, one standard

Mahmoud and Mohamed Noureldin were still students when they taught the first Durusi lessons in Dubai in 2023.

They are twin brothers, and they built Durusi the way students build things: with no office, no advertising, and no plan beyond making the next lesson count. A mentor who had sat the same exam a few years earlier would sit with a child, explain the paper from the inside, and send the parent a note on what had moved. Families noticed. Then they told other families.

By 2024 word of mouth had taken over. Almost every new family arrived because another family had recommended us, and the lessons spread from Dubai to Abu Dhabi. That is a slower way to grow than buying attention, and a better one: a recommendation only lasts while the lessons keep working.

Today the network is 150+ mentors from universities including AUS, AUD, CUD and NYUAD, each vetted and matched by hand to one child, with a progress note after every lesson and a free rematch if the fit is not right. Lessons run online anywhere in the UAE or in person across Dubai and Abu Dhabi, and soon families will book them in our own app, where every price already includes 5% VAT.

Behind the name is a registered UAE company, Durusi (FZC), trade licence 4382. The numbers a family can check are listed further down this page, because trust should be built on what can be verified, not on words alone.

  1. 2023

    The first lessons

    Two brothers, still students, teaching in Dubai. No office, no ads.

  2. 2024

    Word of mouth took over

    Almost every new family came from another family. Lessons spread to Abu Dhabi.

  3. Today

    A standard, not a list

    150+ vetted mentors, 60+ subjects, a note after every lesson, a mentor usually within 48 hours, and 97% of students improving within weeks.

In numbers

Where we stand today

  • 150+ university mentors
  • 60+ subjects covered
  • 97% improve within weeks
  • 48h to a matched mentor
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Registered and verifiable

Three numbers you can check

  • Licence

    4382

    Durusi (FZC), a UAE company licensed in the Sharjah Research Technology and Innovation Park free zone.

  • TRN

    105044055900003

    Our UAE tax registration number. Every price on this site already includes 5% VAT.

  • D-U-N-S

    850132785

    Our Dun & Bradstreet number, issued through CRIF in the UAE. Schools, companies and government buyers use it to confirm that a business is real.

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Hand-matched, and no minimum on Flexible.

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