eL Seed, Calligraphy Artist

eL Seed is a contemporary artist whose practice crosses the disciplines of painting and sculpture. He uses the wisdom of writers, poet, and philosophers from around the world to convey messages of peace and to underline the commonalities of human existence. eL Seed uses his art as an echo of the stories of the communities that he meets around the world and aims to amplify their voices. He considers his artwork a way to build links between peoples around the world. Whenever he works within a community, he spends a long time to learn and be inspired by its members, researching to find the best art installation to summarise the voice of the community he is working within and to underline his key principals of love, respect, and tolerance. His work has been shown in exhibitions and public places all over the world including most notably on the facade of L'institut du monde Arabe in Paris, in the favelas of Rio de Janeiro, on the DMZ between North and South Korea, in the slums of Cape Town, and in the heart of Cairo's garbage collectors’ neighbourhood. In 2021, eL Seed was selected by the World Economic Forum as one of the Young Global Leaders for his vision and influence to drive positive change in the world. In 2019, he won ‘The international award for public art’ for Perception, his project in Cairo. In 2017, he won the UNESCO Sharjah Prize for Arab Culture and was named a Global Thinker in 2016 by Foreign Policy magazine, also for Perception. In 2015, he was recognised as one of the year’s TED Fellows for advocating peaceful expression and social progress through his work. He has also collaborated with Louis Vuitton on their famous Foulard d’artistes .