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Born in 1964 in Eisawiyyeh village, Jerusalem, Ahmad Dari

developed a new style in the construction of the Arabic Calligraphy painting, sending letters in all directions in the space of the artwork, transcending all classical borders imposed on the classical calligraphy works. He mixes more than one calligraphic style using

Numerous dimensions and brushes of varying thickness bringing in a new scope to the work. Dari studied color intensively, and tries through his artworkto divide his colors into different groups, finding a new harmony between his vertical, very versatile lines, and the highstanding horizontal ones, with strong elements of the trilogy of man, life, and space.

Ahmad Dari, plays with words of poetry, taking special verses from classicaand modern poetry, and transforming them into an artwork. It becomes no longer important to understand what they mean in Arabic as much as to feel their newly acquired meaning in the space of the artwork.

In his compositions Dari tries to create a relationship between the letter, the word, the phrase and the space of the painting. The geometry of the letters engenders the meaning of the words.

In his paintings he tries to create worlds that replicate his feelings ,which generally coincide with the connotation of the poetry used. He presents two movements: one of calligraphy and the other of color, both intercepting and uniting as in the relationship between music and song. Dari's calligraphic style is somewhat unorthodox. He does not regard himself as a calligrapher in the strict sense of the word. He uses the greatest possible range of colors although this is not the nature of classical Arabic calligraphy. "By mixing just two colors I can produce more than 40 different shades in the paintings. This is what I really like." Ahmad Dari is also a musician, and currently works as assistant to the representative of Palestine at UNESCO - Paris.