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my projects

If you love what you do, it will be very authentic, and by that, people engage with what you create. Authenticity is the key.

hope
sclupture

Building is such a scale of creating your own roots and putting your own rules. Standing out takes courage, consistency needs hope. First presented in Maker Faire Cairo 2017, “HOPE” was my first sculpture. Capturing the letters in assembly, calligraffiti was the special way to combine stability with beauty.

Depth

From the depth of warm emotions expressed by blended soft colors, the piece modify one of the lightest colors in arabic ‘Ha’ - هاء’. The flow of small details, along with the texture of each part, symbolizes harmony & simplicity.
Tranquility is best accompanied with warmth, belonging, and contentment. Vivid enough to the eyes, close enough to the heart

harmony

Yellowish vibes of energy usually create the boldness of a character. Entertain the thought of the intensified light that presents the details of all surroundings.
With the enlargement of calligraffiti murals, doors of imagination seem gigantic. Each color adds a taste to the picture, and each letter draws the path towards harmony.

Dibajah

I was blessed by the wings my art had to make its way to design for branded products. In this collection, I had my own trace in adding calligraffiti details to everyday items.

ihsan, nuba

Traveling through different cities in Egypt, I got to spend a lot of time discovering myself. Meeting different people and, perhaps, living a part of their life, I was inspired to create a mural that presents the place and the hospitality and excellence of its people “Ihsan - إحسان”. The warmth of Aswan and the kindness of its people hold a special part of this calligraffiti tour.

SQUARE KUFIC

Back to classical calligraphy, the square kufic script shows a different dimension of what the Arabic letters have to offer.

ولن تجد من دونه ملتحدا Say: "No one can deliver me from Allah (If I were to disobey Him), nor should I find refuge except in Him,
فاذكروني اذكركم“Happiness and contentment are two fundamentally different things. Happiness is moments … Contentment is a state of being. And if a person can reach that state of being. Then there are more moments of happiness. And the hard moments become easier to navigate. God says you can get contentment by remembering Him … Make an effort to remember Allah. Make an effort to gain contentment. May Allah make it easy.” - Nouman Ali Khan
لا ملجأ من الله إلا إليه “No one will know your pain, except Allah. And that’s not anyone’s fault. It’s how Allah made us. So in our pain we can’t allow ourselves to become aimless. We run to Him now. Not away from Him. He will bring relief. Only He can. May He make it easy for us.” - Nouman Ali Khan
Allah is the greatest
guidance
فُصِّلَتْ A Book, whereof the verses are explained in detail
As the Arabic letters travel through the world, so do I. I kept on speaking calligraffiti to the world through murals and workshops. One of the calligraffiti teaching activities took place in China. By that time, students could find their way to create a link to calligraffiti and know more about different letters. Through my journey, I learned that even if people don’t speak Arabic, they could still speak calligraffiti.

China tour

Through the very small details of each feather in an owl’s wings, every star in a night sky, and the texture of the trees, lies a sequence of inspirational facts. With just analyzing the details, your mind does magic your hand translates.

Wild

Within each part of any standing creature, a story exists.

From the bottom heart of architecture, calligraffiti indulges the beauty of buildings. It gives life to concrete, as it gives walls the ability to speak. In the heart of Cairo stands a mural that holds hours of consecutive work of art to speak to millions of souls for years.

ahl alquran mosque, cairo

abstracted

Internal details are casted through external inspirations. My pieces are different sparks of my perception of things, and my own feelings towards them. Each detail has its own heritage of my own stories, along with the stories I encounter and analize. The freedom of calligraffiti enables thoughts to be widely expressed as aspired.

acrylic calligraphy

“Don’t hate what you don’t understand - لا تكره ما لا تفهم” Sometimes you have a built-in resistance to change, to new things. Better appreciation comes when you give yourself space to accept what you don’t understand.

from nyc to aswan

Lambs might be different but light is always the same.

This canvas was displayed in New York City, then it became the inspiration for my poster design for Aswan tour.

Reality may always be better than our dreams, as we maintain the faith within us.

Jannah, damanhour

rare, alexandria

Beside my desk on university

where a lot of time was wasted, there was a room for a little golden breeze.

every project starts with a sketch and maybe a lot of sketches, as it goes through lots of stages. in this project after making the digital design and by coincidence, I discovered a way to curve it on a foam sheet to get this amazing result !

Handmade, digital then handmade

Growing through letters, moving through cities, taking different colors, will get your brush wet and your heart content.

ADVENTUROUS, MACAU

bluish

Blue is coded for comfortness. It’s seen in all shades in a waving sea that has a lot to offer and a beautiful sky at all times.

For me, circles are boundaries, routines, comfort zones, fake perfections, so I always try to push myself and my letters out of any circle.
It can be a beautiful butterfly carrying hope among its wings, it can be some random, complicated, purposeless letters on a weird composition, it can even be anything else, but actually it doesn't matter what it is, what really matters is how you see it.
Don’t just chase your dreams. Run them down
It’s a little bit hard but you got to get rid of these negative thoughts, get closer, touch the details, reach the buried light on the heavy clouds of darkness, rely upon Allah and figure out the truth by yourself.
To love beauty is to see light.
Through its journey, the light hits spots to show hidden details, different perspectives, and means of texture. Light passes through calligraffiti to spark an internal jewel within the soul.

architecture

If you can sketch it, you can touch it. Scaling calligraffiti letters to architectural concepts is a challenge, only to create a new perspective of living and a distinguished flow of motion.

If you love what you do, it will be very authentic, and by that, people engage with what you create. Authenticity is the key.
Personalizing places at which spent quality time is a skill I loved practicing. Between simplicity and sophistication, I aspire to create different pieces to reflect valuable concepts.
Close enough to live calligraffiti in architecture, I was invited to “The Academy of Fine Art and Design” in Bratislava to develop my project “Calligraphic Pavilion”.