back to the homepageAll material is copyrighted. Click to read the details.find an artistwhat´s going downwho are we and what do we do?
back to the homepageback to the homepagewhat´s new & the site map.read all about itOrdering Back issues of Arts Dialoguesubmit material / help with our work
find:Visual ArtsCanada

Burhan Zahra'i


calligraphy, painting, sculpture, jewellery, Qatar / Canada


Paradise is under the footsteps,
painting by Burhan Zahra'i, 2006.

Burhan Zahra'i was born in 1963 in Qatar and he moved to Canada in 1986.
He has a Bachelors degree in Sculpture from Concordia University, Quebec, Canada. Since the age of 12 he has practiced the art of calligraphy, teaching himself from books, newspapers, and from reproductions of calligraphy by famous calligraphers of the Arab world.

He has done numerious private commissions. A major work of his was a calligraphic rendering of the Kitabi-Aqdas by Bahaś'llah, at the request of the Universal House of Justice. The transcription of the Aqdas was printed as the first authorised publication of the Book.


Have Insight, painting by Burhan Zahra'i, 2006.

He has done numerious private commissions.
A major work of his was a calligraphic rendering of the Kitabi-Aqdas by Bahaś'llah, at the request of the Universal House of Justice. The transcription of the Aqdas was printed as the first authorised publication of the Book.

Burhan Zahrai has had many calligraphy shows in Canada.

His style is classic and traditional. Recently he started making digital work in color, using photoshop.


Burhan sells reproductions or originals of his calligraphy and his calligraphic jewellery via his website:
www.splendidart.com


Arts Dialogue, Dintel 20, NL 7333 MC, Apeldoorn, The Netherlands
email: bafa@bahai-library.com