I am a calligrapher and craftsman currently living in Washington, DC. I speak decent Arabic, passable Persian, and abysmal Turkish, Uzbek, and Hebrew. I am currently a student of Mohamed Zakariya in the Ottoman calligraphic tradition. I received my ijaazah from him in July of 2020, after 8 years of full time study.

I believe a piece of calligraphy can only be called our own if we are in control of all aspects of a piece, from beginning to end, we must direct the vision. I make my paper, dye and ahar it, compose the calligraphy, marble the paper, and put the entire piece together with illumination myself.

In addition to calligraphy, I also build furniture. When I lived in Bloomington, I bought an entire walnut tree from a 95-year old man who, being a lifelong woodworker, couldn't let it go to waste when it fell on his property 12 years prior. I built the majority of the furniture for our house from that tree.