Islam Zian-Alabdeen is a painter who has found his home in the Parisian art scene, and may evoke in some the memory of Olivier Messian – the composer, who painted that fourth dimension with his musical notes, that of a story, a gift that only raconteur such as Islam can channel. His drawings draw on the poetic symbolism of his Nubian homeland, his journey of migration to north and his travels as a child through Syria, Jordan, France and the Netherlands. Over an above, Islam is a passionate advocate of supporting nurturing environments for early childhood development.