The CEO of Baydoun Handmade art:

Ar. Ziad Baydoun was born in 1987 in the city of Damascus and he is originally from Idlib Kafr Takharim (Syria). After completing his high school in Jumaat Khashan Kafr Takharim High School in the 1999s, he started doing his degree in Interior Design at Damascus University, Syria. After he graduated with a great mark in 2010 and he works for two years as a freelancer in the Interior designer field, he joined his father in creating very big restoration projects.

In 2012 he moved to Malaysia to continue his master’s degree and to work with one of the biggest companies in Malaysia to enhance his artistic talents in the 3D designs and Arabic Cultural which specializes in the intricate and Syrian traditional ‘Ajami art.

He completed his Master’s at the International Islamic University Malaysia IIUM in 2016 and after that, he opened his own business, which is the respected company, Damascene Art Sdn Bhd which is like his father’s company in Syria which was Baydoun Art.

Mr. Ziad was from the first people who had done a Master research talking about the technique of ‘Ajami handmade art through the Syrian master artisan and he had done many publications related to his topic.

Now Ar. Ziad is doing his Ph.D. in architecture at IIUM and continuing his dreams to spread Islamic handmade art everywhere in the world and follow his father, Mr. Abdulraouf by achieving his goals.

Mr. Ziad becomes quite famous in Malaysia while he showed up on many TV channels such as Bernama TV, TV1, and TV3, also there were several times newspapers talking about him and his family’s talent.