This is a list of women artists who were born in

Iraq Iraq,; ku, عێراق, translit=Êraq officially the Republic of Iraq, '; ku, کۆماری عێراق, translit=Komarî Êraq is a country in Western Asia. It is bordered by Turkey to Iraq–Turkey border, the north, Iran to Iran–Iraq ...

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Najiba Ahmad Najiba Ahmad (born 1954) ( Kurdish:نه‌جیبە ئه‌حمه‌د, Necîbe Ehmed; pronounced ) is a contemporary Kurdish writer, poet, and translator Life and career Ahmad was born in northern city of Kirkuk in 1954. She studied Kurdish lang ...

(born 1954), poet * Kajal Ahmad (born 1967 Kirkuk), Kurdish-Iraqi poet * Firyal Al-Adhamy (born 1950), painter *

Reem Alasadi Reem Alasadi ( ar, ريم الأسدي) is an Iraqi-born British fashion designer. She is based in both London and Tokyo, and is very popular in Japan, with her style being described as ''"British punk and recycled materials molded into volumino ...

(active since 2000), fashion designer * Rheim Alkadhi (born 1973), interdisciplinary artist *

Jananne Al-Ani Jananne Al-Ani (born 1966) is an Irish-Iraqi artist. Personal life Al-Ani was born in Kirkuk, Iraq in 1966 to an Iraqi father and Irish mother. She studied Fine Art at the Byam Shaw School of Art and graduated with an MA in Photography from th ...

(born 1966), artist, photographer, filmmaker, researcher *

Layla Al-Attar Layla Al-Attar ( ar, ليلى العطار; May 7, 1944 – June 27, 1993) was an Iraqi artist and painter who became the Director of the Iraqi National Art Museum. Through her art, al-Attar expressed ideals that attempted to recognize the importa ...

(fl. 1965–1993), painter *

Sama Alshaibi Sama Raena Alshaibi also known as Sama Alshaibi ( ar, سما الشيبي born 1973 in Basra, Iraq) is a conceptual artist (video art, performative photography, sculpture and installation), who deals with spaces of conflict as her primary subjec ...

(born 1973), contemporary artist * Halla Ayla (born 1957), photographer, painter

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* Wasma'a Khalid Chorbachi (born 1944), Iraqi-American ceramist, calligrapher, painter

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Enheduanna Enheduanna ( sux, , also transliterated as , , or variants) was the priestess of the moon god Nanna (Sīn) in the Sumerian city-state of Ur in the reign of her father, Sargon of Akkad. She was likely appointed by her father as the leader of t ...

, poet 23rd century BC, thought to be the earliest poet

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* Lisa Fattah (1941–1992), German-Iraqi painter, married to influential sculptor,

Ismail Fatah Al Turk Ismail Fatah Al-Turk ("Ismail Fatah") (1934 or 1938–2004) was an Iraqi painter and sculptor born in Basra, Iraq, noted for his abstract art, monumental sculpture and public works and as part of the Baghdad Modern Art Group, which fostered a sen ...

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Zaha Hadid Dame Zaha Mohammad Hadid ( ar, زها حديد ''Zahā Ḥadīd''; 31 October 1950 – 31 March 2016) was an Iraqi-British architect, artist and designer, recognised as a major figure in architecture of the late 20th and early 21st centu ...

(1950–2016), Iraqi-British architect * Wihad al-Halem

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* Najar al-Jader * Ishtar Jamil * Haky Jasim (born 1958 Baghdad)

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Hayv Kahraman Hayv Kahraman (born 1981) is an Iraqi-American-Swedish artist of Kurdish descent, who was born in Baghdad and fled to Sweden with family during the Gulf War, studied in Florence, and is currently based in Los Angeles. She is primarily a painter. ...

(born 1981), painter and sculptor *

Toba Khedoori Toba Khedoori (born 1964 in Australia) is an artist of Iraqi heritage, known primarily for highly detailed mixed-media paintings executed on large sheets of wax-coated paper. Biography Khedoori was born in Sydney of Jewish-Iraqi parentage an ...

(born 1964), Iraqi-Australian mixed-media artist (twin sister of Rachel Khedoori) *

Rachel Khedoori Rachel Khedoori (born 1964 in Sydney, Australia) is a contemporary artist of Iraqi Jewish heritage based in Los Angeles and known primarily for her mixed use of sculpture, film and architecture. Biography Khedoori was born in Sydney and raise ...

(born 1964), Iraqi-Australian artist (twin sister of Toba Khedoori)

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* Hanaa Malallah (born 1958), Iraqi mixed-media artist

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Madiha Omar Madiha Umar (1908 – 2005 in Aleppo) ( ar, مديحة عمر) was an Iraqi artist who was known for incorporating calligraphy with abstract art. She is generally perceived as the first Arab artist to have done this. Therefore, she is seen as ...

(1908–2005), pioneer of

Hurufiyya movement The Hurufiyya movement ( ar, حروفية ''ḥurufiyyah'', adjectival form ''ḥurufī'', 'letters' (of the alphabet)) is an aesthetic movement that emerged in the second half of the twentieth century amongst Muslim artists, who used their unde ...

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* Nuha al-Radi (born 1941), diarist, ceramist, painter

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Hana Sadiq Hana Sadiq ( ar, هنا صادق) is an Iraqi fashion designer who has held fashion shows in Amman, Naples, Beirut and Dubai. Her customers include Queen Noor and Queen Rania of Jordan and members of the House of Saud. Sadiq had a degree in F ...

(active since 1980s), fashion designer *

Salima Salih Salima Salih (Arabic: :ar:سالمة صالح, سالمة صالح; born 1942) is an Iraqi short story writer, translator, and artist, from the city of Mosul. She is well known for her articles that advocate human rights, especially Women's righ ...

(born 1942), short story writer, translator and artist * Naziha Salim (1927–2008), painter, sculptor * Tamara Salman (active since 2004), fashion designer *Maheen al-Sarraf *Sihan al-Saudi Hammon, N.T., "Women Artists in Arab Countries," ''Al-Raid Journal'', vol. 8, nos 44-45, 1988 *

Lorna Selim Lorna Selim (1928-2021) was an English artist and art teacher, who married prominent Iraqi sculptor Jewad Selim, relocating to Baghdad with him in 1950. She was a practising artist for much of her life up until her death. Selim contributed to the ...

(1928–2012), British-Iraqi painter, wife of

Jawad Saleem Jewad Selim (1919–1961) ( ar, جواد سليم) was an Iraqi painter and sculptor born in Ankara, Ottoman Empire in 1919. He became an influential artist through his involvement with the Iraqi Baghdad Modern Art Group, which encouraged artists ...

influential Iraqi sculptor *

Vian Sora Vian Sora (born 1976 in Baghdad, Iraq) is an Iraqi American artist. Biography Sora was born in Baghdad in 1976. She left Iraq in 2006, during the Iraq War, eventually settling in Louisville, Kentucky with her husband in 2009. Sora works primar ...

(born 1976), Iraqi-American painter

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* Aatqall Taúaa (active since 1970s), digital artist

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Zeena Zaki Zeena Zaki (born 1/1/1974) is an Iraqi haute couture fashion designer. She launched her first fashion atelier in Dubai, the United Arab Emirates in 2003, where her fashion house operates under the label "Julea Domani", an epitome of both Edwardia ...

(born 1974), fashion designer *

Haifa Zangana Haifa Zangana (born 1950 in Baghdad, Iraq) is an Iraqi writer, painter, and political activist, known for her novel ''Women on a Journey: Between Baghdad and London'' about political repression, violence and exile. She has written both novels and ...

(born 1950), writer, artist, political activist

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