Ali Badshah

Ali Badshah is an artist, storyteller, rebel, and mystic: A whirling dervish who stars in Oscar® nominated and critically acclaimed films, along with hit television shows and comedy specials streaming all over the world.

He is the male lead in the award-winning feature film drama The Breadwinner, produced by Angelina Jolie and based on the International bestselling novel by Deborah Ellis. Ali has written and starred in five televised comedy specials for CBC, CTV, The Comedy Network, MTV and ABC2 Australia.

Currently, he is a series regular on Adult Swim’s new comedy Doomsday Brothers and can be seen in Netflix’s hit teen dance film Feel The Beat, starring Sofia Carson.

Ali has been a student and practitioner of Sufism, under an accomplished teacher, since 2011. He is adept in the rhythmic breathing meditation of zikr (practice of remembrance), the movement meditation of sema (whirling), and a variety of other heart-cultivating and ego-conditioning methods, developed by Rumi and other great Sufi masters.

Ghost Flowers is Ali’s first published collection of poetry.