Badie Jahjah is a painter, sculptor, and graphic designer. He graduated from the Faculty of Fine Arts at Damascus University, with a BA degree in Visual Communications and Advertising in 1996.
He is the founder and executive director of the Concept BJ Foundation (2000), for creating branding and visual identity. Through his interest in the spiritual arts, especially dervishes, he established the AlefNooon
Gallery for Spiritual Arts, in 2016. This led him to be the innovator of Dawaran, a new spiritual vision influenced by the dervishes; a system for appreciating universal moral values and ethics, enveloped in a project named ‘Afala. A Project for Thinking’.
Badie is also the Ambassador of the Italian association ‘Colors for Peace’, and he is the founder and sponsor of ‘Alwan wa Afkar’ (Colors and Ideas) contest for pupils and students in Syria, since 2017 to date. Believing
in art as a unifier of the human race and a transcending factor in humanity, proceeds from the possession of Dervish artworks are directed to support this competition and to encourage art and childhood, both nationally and internationally.
During the war on Syria, he launched a set of symbols inspired by the whirling of the dervishes, through which he mingled religions, cultures, and philosophies in order to witness what the human being is going through, and to form a threshold for human sublimity, through the highest universally moral meanings that unite the human beings on the shores of goodness, peace, and love.
Badie’s interest in spirituality, universal values, love, and bridging the way for the human being to reach further knowledge and enlightenment, is a continual joiurney & forever expanding.
