I opened it in 1999. I have been in this business for 23 years and I live from it, both me and my family. I work alone, but my wife sometimes helps me with sketching decorations. My son made a website for me; I'm not much of a technological person.

I learned the first steps in mastering calligraphy from my father Ibrahim. While studying Oriental Studies in Sarajevo, I met the best calligrapher in the former Yugoslavia, Ešref Kovačević, with whom I continued to study this art.

Besides Arabic, I can also write in Bosančica (a variant of the Cyrillic alphabet that originated in medieval Bosnia), and arabica (Arabic script adapted to the phonetic system of the Bosnian language). I can also write in Hebrew if I have a text to look at in front of me.

Through calligraphy, I try to revive the traditional alphabets used in Bosnia and Herzegovina. The most important thing is to keep the tradition alive and return calligraphy to the prestige attributed to it for centuries in Bosnia and Herzegovina.