• Born in the Citadel district, Cairo, Egypt in 1897 and died in 1994
• Studied in Al Azhar University and the National University (1917 – 1930)
• His connection to calligraphy started at school
• His talent in calligraphy was discovered by Sheikh Mustafa El Ghor, the calligraphy professor in Al Azhar University
• Learned calligraphy from Sheikh Farag and Sheikh Abd El Hafez, Sheikh Mohamed Wahby, Sheikh Abd El Ghany Agour and Calligrapher Hussein Hosny from Turkey.
• His literary talent was discovered by the Syrian Sheikh Kamal Eldin El Kawakgy the professor in Al-Azhar University

• Egyptian Schools (1918)
• Royal Writing Amelioration School (1935)
• Dar El Ulum College (Academy of Sciences) (1938–59)
• American University in Cairo (1970-77)
• Institute of Manuscripts – Arab League

• Text-hand (naskh) copybook for Sudan Government 1940
• The Art of Arabic Calligraphy Book  1941
• (Published 6 times and published in Pakistan and Iran.  It included all types of Arabic calligraphy writings)
• Cursive Handwriting Copybook (Reqa’a) taught in Egyptian schools and later in most of the Gulf region

• The Magnificence of Arabic Calligraphy
• Welfare Guide Book.
• Du'aa book.
• Samples of Arabic Calligraphy.
  
• History of Arabic Calligraphy (lectures delivered in Institute of Manuscripts – Arab League)
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• Member of the High Council of Care of Arts & Literature and later a Council of Cultur.
• Member of Heritage Committee of the High Council of Culture
• Member of Facilitating Writing Committee (1934) (It was mainly founded to impede the change of Arabic letters)
• Head of the State Encouragement Award Committee for Calligraphy
• Delegated by the Egyptian Courts as an expert in forgery cases
• Established, with his friend Kamel El Kilany, Modern Literary Group
• Participated in the establishment of Apollo Poetry Group (headed by the Prince of Poets Ahmed Shawky)

• Titles of most of the authentic books in 1920’s-1960’s
• Headings of most of the newspapers and magazines in Egypt and the Arab world (e.g. Al-Ahram, El Mesawer, El Balagh, El Helal, Al Lata’ef , Apollo, El Ekhwan El Muolemoon, Al Madinah Al Monawara, Al Bahreen, Al Haram)
• Wrote many tombstones of celebrities (e.g. Leader Mohamed Farid, Prince of Poets Ahmed Shawky)
• Wrote thousands of tablets, cards, advertisements, marble signs of building establishments in Egypt and abroad
• Wrote tablets that were used to decorate Mohamed Ali Mosque, El Morsi Abou El Abbas Mosque and others.
• Wrote several literary articles and poems that were published in Egyptian and Arabic newspapers and magazines
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• El Fouly Mosque in Minia (1935)
• Hoda Shaarawy Mosque
• El Game’ a Mosque in India (the tablets included El Goma’a Surah, El Korsy verse and 20 tablets of big tholoth writing; all these were copied in El Hosary mosque in Cairo)
• El Salam Mosque in Al-Haram (for his friend Sheikh Ali Hasaballah)
• Shared in the writings of the mosque of his friend Sheikh of Arabs Ahmed Zaki Basha in Giza
• El Hussein Mosque pulpit
• Calligraphy tablets in Prince Mohamed Ali, Crown Prince of Egypt, Palace in Manial
• Writings on the base of Mustafa Kamel Statue in the square named after him
• Shared in the writings of Old Paris Mosque (gift from King Fouad I)

El Game’ a Mosque in India

A Sample of thuluth calligraphy in El Game’ a Mosque in India

His Students

He taught generations of calligraphers from the Islamic world and orientalists in Writing Amelioration School and his office.Of his student:

• Abu Bakr Sassy (Libya) founder of Bin Maklah School of Calligraphy
• Mohamed Seyam and Riyadh Gawhara (Palestine)
• Othman Wakea’ Allah (Sudan)
• Ahmed Diaa Ibrahim, Head of International Calligraphy Committee in Istanbul
• Nasser El Maymoun (Saudi Arabia)
• Butheleija Mohamed, Saeed Gab Allah, Dr. Mohamed Sherify and Abd El Hamid Eskander (Algeria)
• Ganna and Farah Ahmed Ezzat and Hashem El Boghdady (Iraq)
• Mohsen Fatoni, and Borhan Kebarah (Lebanon)
• Sheikh Basheer El Adlabi (Syria)
• Mohamed Mandy (Emirates)
• Abd El Elah El Arab and Hussein Amery (Bahrain)
• Akeel Ahmed (Turkey), first diploma of writing amelioration (1936)
• Ann Royal (USA)
• Younis Ahmed (Thailand)

• Dr Abd El Aziz El Khuwaiter – Saudi State Minister
• Professor Poet Farouk Shousha
• Dr Abd Allah Shehata
• Dr Abd El Sabour Shaheen
• Dr Kamal Beshr
• Dr El Saeed Badawi
• Dr Ahmed Shalaby
• Dr Ahmed Heikal (Previous Egyptian Culture Minister)

• He was honored on Knowledge Day in 1979 as one of the leaders of Education in Egypt
• Honored by Arts Academy in 1979
• Chosen with Hajj Ahmed El Kamel chief calligrapher of Istanbul to write tablets of Manial Palace.  For him this was the greatest honor.
• The Opera House honored him and held a special exhibition for his work in 1996
• Alexandria Library honored him in 2004 and 2006
• Egyptian Book Council administered a celebration to honor him in 2001
• Arabic Calligraphy School in Belbies was named after him
• Algeria honored him in the celebration on the occasion of its choice as the capital of culture in 2007
• The International Committee of History, Art and Heritage in Istanbul named the International Competition of 2000 after him

 Sayed Ibrahim never cared about being honored because he felt that the real honor to any artist is the eternity of his work.