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A dedicated artist, Akil was born in 1988 in Syria. He
graduated from the Faculty of Fine arts in Aleppo and currently lives in
Beirut, Lebanon. His passion for Arabic calligraphy began at a young age and
until now he has been developing this skill through philosophical and
intellectual means related to the letter’s Arabic and Islamic culture.
He has participated in several exhibitions worldwide and his
artworks can be found in private collections in Syria, Lebanon, Kuwait, Saudi
Arabia, United Arab Emirates, Qatar, USA, Austria, Germany, Britain and
Ireland.
Akil’s artworks are based on Arabic musical ‘Maqams’, where he
converts them from their audio pattern to an optical pattern. He explains,
"When I hear a voice inside of me, I try to hold all these moments of
ecstasy and invert them into a letter, a word, an optical language.”
Akil searches for an optical modern language for the Arabic letter.
In Dubai 2018, he was awarded the First place winner of Al-Burda
Prize.