Abdelrahaman Abu-Elfadl

An artist specialising in woodwork and a designer of home accessories and furniture. He graduated with a bachelor's degree in quality control from the Workers' University. After graduating he turned to learning handicrafts, which he had loved since childhood, and joined the Bayt Jameel fellowship for heritage arts, specialising in woodwork and Arab art. He learned the basics of carpentry at Najjaar Woodworking, founded by Mr. Mohamed Salem, then joined the Executing Calligrapher fellowship at Al Qalam School. He is now an emerging teacher of Islamic geometric and floral ornament and the craft of woodwork. His goal is to break the so-called secret of the craft by spreading and teaching the knowledge of Islamic crafts and ornamentation in a systematic, practical way, to keep it from disappearing.