In 1967, he moved back to London and worked as a consultant calligrapher for the firm of banknote makers De La Rue. - Two years after his final return to Sudan in 2005, he died on 4 January 2007, aged 81.
He returned to London in 1967 and served as a freelance calligraphy specialist for De La Rue, a firm that manufactured banknotes. Two years after his final return to Sudan in 2005, he died on January 4, 2007, at the age of 81.