Khaled Saa’i
Syria, b.1970
He grew up in a household of artists, surrounded by painting, music, and calligraphy, and by eighteen years of age he already had a reputation as a calligrapher. He has an MA in Fine Art from the University of Damascus (1998), and was nominated one of the ten best international calligraphers at the first international festival of Calligraphy in Teheran. He has received several awards. Khaled Al-Saai specifically focuses on Arabic letters, their forms, and their symbolic, religious, and musical origins.