Born in Syria, Khaled al-Saa’i is an internationally acclaimed painter and calligraphic artist. Khaled’s passion can be located at the level of the letter itself.  He sees himself as a painter and a “letterist.” For Khaled, letters are living entities that carry and express multiple dimensions from the musical and verbal, to the spiritual, emotional and sensual. While Khaled’s early career focused on traditional Islamic and Arabic calligraphy, his later work moves away from the word and embraces the Arabic letter, while deconstructing and rebuilding it. His process allows it to populate and interact with a visual world that also incorporates oil painting, traditional ink calligraphy, mixed media and collage techniques. (From the Wellesley College website)