The following is a list of important artists, including visual arts, poets and musicians, who were born in Iraq, active in Iraq or whose body of work is primarily concerned with Iraqi themes or subject matter. Note: This article uses Arabic naming customs: the name "al" (which means 'from a certain place') or "ibn" or "ben" (which means 'son of') are not used for alphabetical indexing. Artists are listed alphabetically by their paternal family name. For example, the Iraqi artist Hashem Muhammad al-Baghdadi, is listed under "B" for Baghdadi, the paternal family name while the artist Zigi Ben-Haim, is listed under "H" for Haim.

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Faraj Abbo Faraj Abbo al Numan ( ar, فرج عبو النعمان; November 21, 1921 – March 5, 1984), more commonly Faraj Abu, Faraj Aboo or simply Faraj Abou, was an influential Assyrian Iraqi artist, theatre director, designer, author and educator, n ...

(1921-1984) artist, theatre director, designer, author and educator *

Firyal Al-Adhamy Firyal Al Adhamy Al-Adhamy (born 1950 in Baghdad, Iraq) is a Bahrain-based British Iraqi British Iraqis are British citizens who originate from Iraq. The three main ethnicities within the British Iraqi community are Arabs, Kurds and Turk ...

(also known as Ferial al-Althami) (b. 1950) hurufiyya artist, calligrapher *

Kajal Ahmad Kajal Ahmad (born 1967) is a contemporary Kurdish poet and journalist, known for the show ''Dijebaw'' on Kurdsat. She started writing poetry in 1987. About Ahmad was born in Kirkuk in 1967 of Kurdish ancestry. She began writing poetry in 1986, ...

(b. 1967 Kirkuk) Kurdish-Iraqi poet *

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 langua ...

(b. 1954) poet *

Modhir Ahmed Modhir Ahmed (born 1956) is an Iraqi-Swedish artist. Life and work Born in Baghdad, Iraq, Modhir Ahmed has lived in Poland and Sweden.

(born 1956), visual artist *

Sadik Kwaish Alfraji Sadik Kwaish Alfraji (b. Baghdad, 1960) is an Iraqi multi-media artist, photographer, animator, video producer and installation artist noted for producing "existentialist" works with dark, shadowy figures that speak of human frailty. Life and c ...

(b. Baghdad, 1960), multi-media artist, photographer, animator, video producer and installation artist * M.J. Alhabeeb (born 1954), calligrapher and painter *

Ayad Alkadhi Ayad Alkadhi (Arabic: اياد القاضي; born 1971), is a New York Based, Iraqi born artist. Alkadhi's work focuses on the intersection of Near Eastern and Western culture, politics and religion. Arabic calligraphy and Middle Eastern reference ...

(born 1971), visual artist *

Rheim Alkadhi Rheim Alkadhi (Arabic: ريم القاضي) (born 1973) is a visual artist based in Berlin who works internationally. Alkadhi operates under contemporary conditions in alternating geographical contexts, circumscribed by objects, images, and texts ...

(b. 1973) multidisciplinary artist * Sama Alshaibi (b. 1973) Media artist (video, photography) and installation artist * Usama Alshaibi (b. 1969) filmmaker and painter * Jananne Al-Ani (b. 1966) Iraqi-Irish photographer and film-maker * Latif al-Ani (b. 1932) photographer, known as the 'father of Iraqi photography' *

Zahroun Amara Zahroun Mulla Khidr bin Badran bin Qarjar Al-Zahroun Amara ( ar, زهرون الملا خضر بن بدران بن قارجار ال زهرون عمارة), known simply as Zahroun Amara (also spelled Zahrun, Zahron or Zahroon Amarah) ( ar, زهر ...

, world renowned Mandaean niello

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. People that are known to have owned his silver nielloware include

Stanley Maude Lieutenant-General Sir Frederick Stanley Maude KCB CMG DSO (24 June 1864 – 18 November 1917) was a British Army officer. He is known for his operations in the Mesopotamian campaign during the First World War and for conquering Baghdad in 19 ...

, Winston Churchill, Bahrain royal family, Egyptian King Farouk, Iraqi royal family including kings Faisal I and Ghazi, and British royal family including the

Prince of Wales Prince of Wales ( cy, Tywysog Cymru, ; la, Princeps Cambriae/Walliae) is a title traditionally given to the heir apparent to the English and later British throne. Prior to the conquest by Edward I in the 13th century, it was used by the rule ...

who became

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. * Sinan Antoon (b. 1967) poet * Layla Al-Attar (1944-1993), artist and painter *

Suad al-Attar Suad al-Attar (Arabic, سعاد العطار) (born 1942) is an Iraqi painter whose work is in private and public collections worldwide, including The British Museum and the Gulbenkian Collection. She has held over twenty solo exhibitions, incl ...

(born 1942), painter *

Halla Ayla Halla Ayla (born in 1957) is an Iraqi American artist and self-taught photographer, currently living in San Francisco, CA. She is noted for her activism and is a champion of women's rights and also works to encourage peace and understanding between ...

(born 1957), photographer, painter *

Apo Avedissian Apo Avedissian (born 24 July 1990 in Baghdad, Iraq) is an Iraqi-American artist of Armenian descent, often working in film-making, painting, photography, and writing. Avedissian’s writing portfolio most notably includes the autobiographical bo ...

(b. 1990) filmmaker, painter, photographer, and writer * Dia Azzawi (b. 1939) painter active in Iraq and London * Fadhil Al Azzawi (born 1940), 20th century poet

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Hashem Muhammad al-Baghdadi Hashem Muhammad al-Baghdadi (1917–1973) was an Iraqi master calligrapher, noted for his lettering which exhibited a steadiness of hand and fluidity of movement. In his later life, he was acknowledged as the "imam of calligraphy" across the Arab ...

(1917-1973) calligrapher *

Niazi Mawlawi Baghdadi Niazi Mawlawi Baghdadi (also given as Nazayi Mulawi Baghdadi) was a nineteenth century Iraqi painter, decorator and calligrapher, regarded as the first Iraqi artist to combine traditional practices within a modern style of art. Life and career Vi ...

- nineteenth century painter, decorator and calligrapher * Ahmed Al Bahrani (b. 1965) sculptor *

Ala Bashir Ala Bashir is an Iraqi painter, sculptor and plastic surgeon who has exhibited widely and is noted for his portrayals of the human condition. Work His works of art have been shown in several international exhibitions in, for example, France ...

(born 1939), painter, sculptor and plastic surgeon * Basil Al Bayati (b. 1946) architect and designer * Wafaa Bilal (b. 1966), performance artist, author and educator

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Wasma'a Khalid Chorbachi Wasma'a Khalid Chorbachi is an American-Iraqi artist. Personal background She was born in 1944 in Cairo to Iraqi parents, living and working in the United States, is a ceramicist, calligrapher, and painter. She is considered both as a "famous ...

(born 1944), Iraqi-American ceramist, calligrapher, painter *

Kamil Chadirji Kamil Chadirji (1897–1968, ar, عمران كامل), also spelled Kamil al-Chadirji or Kamel al-Chaderji, was an Iraqi politician, photographer, lawyer, activist, and founder of the National Democratic Party in Iraq. He served as a member of ...

(1897-1968), photographer * Rifa'at Chadirchi (1926-2020) Iraqi architect (son of photographer, Kamil Chardirji)

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* Issa Hanna Dabish (1919-2009) pioneer painter * Murad al-Daghistani (b. 1917 Mosul, Iraq - 1984) pioneering photographer *

Salim al-Dabbagh Salim al-Dabbagh (born 1941 in Mosul, Iraq) is an Iraqi painter and installation artist noted for abstract work that references Iraqi traditions. He was one of the founders of the Innovationists Group; an artists' collective that helped to shap ...

(b. 1941) artist and print-maker * Bassem Hamad al-Dawiri (died 2007), sculptor and artist * Hafidh al-Droubi (1914-1991) (also given as Hafid or Hafez Drubi) (1914-1991) painter and educator

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* Enheduanna 23rd century BCE poetess, wrote on Cuneiform tablets * Ali Eyal (b. 1994) multi-media artist and painter

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Lisa Fattah Lisa Fattah (1941–1992) was a German-born artist of Swedish descent who lived and worked in Iraq. Life and career Fattah studied at the Accademia di Belle Arti di Roma graduating in 1963 and the Real Academia de Bellas Artes de San Fernand ...

(1941–1992), German-born painter, wife of Ismail Fatah al-Turk, active in Iraq *

Fuzûlî Mahammad bin Suleyman ( Classical Azerbaijani: ), better known by his pen name Fuzuli ( az-Arab, فضولی ; ; * ota, محمد بن سلیمان فضولی ; * fa, محمد بن سلیمان فضولی . – 1556), was a 16th century p ...

(Muhammad bin Suleyman) 15th century poet * Mun'im Furat (1900-1972) sculptor

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Abdulameer Yousef Habeeb Abdulameer Yousef Habeeb is an Iraqi artist and calligrapher living as of 2008 as a refugee in the United States. His detention in Havre, Montana, on April 1, 2003, apparently due to ethnic profiling, led eventually to an apology and compensat ...

(b. ?) calligrapher * Mohammed Saeed Al-Habboubi (1849- 1915) poet *

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 * Asim Abdul Hafid (1886 - ?) *

Kadhim Hayder Kadhim Haydar (alternative: Kazem Haider) (1932–1985) was a highly respected Iraqi artist, poet, author, stage-set designer and educator who, as part of the first generation of modern Iraqi artists, had a major influence on the direction of m ...

(alternatives: Kazem Haider, Kadhim Haydar) (1932- 1985), artist, poet, author, stage-set designer, educator *

Zigi Ben-Haim Zigi Ben-Haim (born 1945 in Baghdad, Iraq) is an American-Israeli painter and sculptor who lives and works in New York City and Israel. Current Projects Why Flowers? "CoronaTime has accentuated our existence between life and death. One ob ...

(b. 1945) sculptor and painter * Mansur Al-Hallaj 9th century Sufi poet and mystic *

Jamil Hamoudi Jamil Hamoudi (1924–2003) was an Iraqi artist who became the Director of the Ministry of Culture's Fine Arts Department. He is noted for his involvement in various Iraqi and Arabic art movements including the Hurufiyya movement which bridged th ...

, (1924-2003), sculptor, painter and author * Choman Hardi (born 1974), poet, translator and painter * Faeq Hassan (1914–1990), painter *

Mohammed Ghani Hikmat Mohammad Ghani Hikmat (April 20, 1929 – September 12, 2011) ( ar, محمد غني حكمت) was an Iraqi sculptor and artist credited with creating some of Baghdad's highest-profile sculptures and monuments and was known as the "sheik of sculp ...

(1929–2011), sculptor

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Jabra Ibrahim Jabra Jabra Ibrahim Jabra (28 August 1919 – 12 December 1994) ( ar, جبرا ابراهيم جبرا) was a Iraqi-Palestinian author, artist and intellectual born in Adana in French-occupied Cilicia to a Syriac Orthodox Christian family. His fami ...

(1920-1994) painter, art historian, art critic and author * Khalid al-Jader (1922-1988) painter, educator, art historian and author *

Muhammad Mahdi Al-Jawahiri Muhammad Mahdi Al-Jawahiri ( ar, محمد مهدي الجواهري ) (26 July 1899 – 27 July 1997) was an Iraqi poet.Adel Darwish, 'Obituary: Mohammed Al-Jawahri', ''The Independent'', 11 August 1997Online(subscription only) at HighBeam. Cons ...

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Koutaiba Al Janabi Koutaiba Al-Janabi is a British-based Iraqi filmmaker, director and photographer. He filmed ''Wasteland: Between London and Baghdad'' and the 2010 award-winning film, ''Leaving Baghdad''. He is a member of the Hungarian Society of Cinematographe ...

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Amal al-Jubouri Amal Al-Jubouri (born 1967) is an Iraqi writer, poet, translator, journalist and publisher. Biography Al-Jubouri was born in Baghdad in 1967. When she was 19, al-Jubouri's first anthology ''Wine from Wounds'' was published. After a dissenting arti ...

(b. 1967) poet *

Jamal Jumá Jamal Jumá, born in Baghdad, is an Iraqi poet and writer. Since 1984, he has lived in Denmark. He has Bachelor of Arts in Arabic literature from University of Basrah and Cand.mag. in Semitic Philology from the University of Copenhagen. He was an Ar ...

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Saleh al-Jumai'e Saleh al-Jumai'e (b. 1939 Saweira, Iraq) is an Iraqi artist noted for his works that explore the notion of tracks left by ancient heritage. His works often integrate Arabic calligraphy in an abstract artwork. Life and career Saleh al-Jumai'e w ...

(b. 1939) (alternative: Salih al-Jumaie) contemporary artist

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Nida Kadhim Nida Kadhim (born 1937 Iraq) is an Iraqi sculptor, noted for producing a number of monumental works for Baghdad's city centre, some of which are still standing, while others were demolished or looted following the 2003 Iraqi invasion. Life and c ...

(b. 1937) sculptor * Hayv Kahraman (born 1981) painter and sculptor *

Farouk Kaspaules Farouk Kaspaules is an Iraqi-born Canadian artist of Assyrian origin, noted for his engravings and silk-screen photography. Life and career Born in Baghdad, Kaspaules left Iraq in the mid-1970s for political reasons. After a brief stay in the Unit ...

(born ?) artist * Hashim al-Khattat, "Hashim the Calligrapher," (1917-1973) calligrapher, considered as the last of the classical calligraphers * Rachel Khedoori (born 1964) Australian-born artist of Iraqi heritage (twin sister of Toba Khedoori) * Toba Khedoori (born 1964), Australian-born artist of Iraqi heritage, known primarily for highly detailed mixed-media paintings (twin sister of Rachel Khedoori) * Paulus Khofri (1923–2000), composer, lyricist and painter * Nedim Kufi (b. 1966), multi-disciplinary visual artist and graphic designer

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* Muhammad Hasan Abi al-Mahasin poet *

Alaa Al-Marjani Alaa Al-Marjani (born 1967) is an Iraqi photojournalist from the city of Najaf who worked for Associated Press and is currently working with Reuters. He covered the event of the US invasion of Iraq in 2003, the civil war that followed the invasio ...

(b.1967) Photographer from

Najaf Najaf ( ar, ٱلنَّجَف) or An-Najaf al-Ashraf ( ar, ٱلنَّجَف ٱلْأَشْرَف), also known as Baniqia ( ar, بَانِيقِيَا), is a city in central Iraq about 160 km (100 mi) south of Baghdad. Its estimated popula ...

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Reuters Reuters ( ) is a news agency owned by Thomson Reuters Corporation. It employs around 2,500 journalists and 600 photojournalists in about 200 locations worldwide. Reuters is one of the largest news agencies in the world. The agency was est ...

. * Mohamed Makiya (1914-2015) modernist architect and patron of the arts * Vartan Malakian (b. 1947) painter and artist *

Hanaa Malallah Hanaa Malallah (born 1958) is an Iraqi artist and educator living in London, England. Her surname also appears in English as Mal-Allah. She is noted for developing the technique called the ''Ruins Technique'' in which found objects are incorpora ...

(b. 1958) painter * Hassan Massoudy (b. 1944) painter and calligrapher *

Ahmed Matar Ahmed Matar (Arabic أحمد مطر, born 1954) is a revolutionary Iraqi poet who has been living in exile for decades, most recently in London. His poetry is very critical of dictatorial Arab rulers, especially the Iraqi rulers, the lack of fr ...

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Dunya Mikhail Dunya Mikhail (born 1965 in Baghdad, Iraq) is an Iraqi-American poet based in the United States. Life She was born and raised in Iraq to a Chaldean-Catholic family. She graduated with a BA from the University of Baghdad. Mikhail worked as a jo ...

(b. 1965) poet * Ghassan Muhsen (born 1945), artist, painter and ambassador * Ibn Muqla (885/6–940) 10th-century calligrapher

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* Rafa al-Nasiri (1940-2013) painter, print-maker, educator and author * Muzaffar Al-Nawab (b. 1934) poet, critic and painter * Abū Nuwās al-Ḥasan ibn Hānī al-Ḥakamī 9th century Iraqi poet * Farah Nosh (b ?) photographer and photo-journalist

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Amer al-Obaidi Amer al-Obaidi (born 1943, Al Najaf) is an Iraqi-born painter, now residing in the United States, who is noted for artwork that emphasises Iraqi folklore and tradition. Life and career Amer Al Obaidi was born in Al Najaf in 1943 into a large ...

(b. 1943)(alternative: Amer al-Ubeidi), painter * Mahmoud Obaidi (b. Baghdad 1966) painter, conceptual artist, sculptor, film-maker * Madiha Omar (1908 – 2005) pioneer of the

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 under ...

Widad Al-Orfali Widad Al-Orfali (وداد الأورفه لي) is an Iraqi artist and musician. In the early 1980s, she founded a private art gallery in Iraq, which she later moved to Jordan after the start of the Iran-Iraq War. Life and career Orfali was born ...

(b. 1929) artist and musician

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Fred Parhad Fred Parhad (born 1947) is an Iraqi-Assyrian sculptor who is best known for his monument of Ashurbanipal, which stands in San Francisco in front of that city's Asian Art Museum. Parhad is a self-taught sculptor, who, at the beginning of his car ...

(b. 1947) sculptor

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* Qais Al-Sindy (b. 1967), an Iraqi contemporary artist and painter.

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Husain al-Radi Husain Ar-Radi (;1924, Najaf – 24 February 1963, Baghdad), also known as Hashiim, 'Ammar, and Salam Adil (), was an Iraqi communist politician as well as a poet and painter. He was the leader of the Iraqi Communist Party from 1955 until his ...

(1924–1963), politician, poet, and painter *

Nuha al-Radi Nuha al-Radi (January 27, 1941 in Baghdad – August 30, 2004 in Beirut) was an Iraqi diarist, ceramicist and painter and noted author of the ''Baghdad Diaries'' which vividly recounts the horror of living through the first Gulf War. Life and car ...

(1941-2004), diarist, ceramicist, painter *

Khaled al-Rahal Khaled Al-Rahal (also given as Khālid al-Raḥḥāl, 1926–1987) ( ar, خالد الرحال) was an Iraqi painter and sculptor and one of the leaders of the modern art movement in Iraq. Described as one of the "pillars of modern Iraqi art," ...

(1926-1987), sculptor and painter *

Nadhim Ramzi Nadhim Ramzi ( ar, ناظم رمزي; 14 July 1928 – 18 September 2013 from a Kurdish family) was an Iraqi graphic designer, calligrapher, photographer, and painter best known for documenting life in Iraq from the 1950s by photography. Lif ...

(1928–2013) artist and graphic designer * Abdul Qadir Al Rassam (1882–1952), painter *

Wafaa Abed Al Razzaq Wafaa Abed Al Razzaq ( ar, وفاء عبد الرزاق) is an Iraqi poet and writer. She was born in 1952 in Basra, Iraq. She currently resides in London, UK, and holds a bachelor's degree in accounting. Awards *Mitropolite Nicholaous No'man P ...

(b. 1952) poet

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Miran al-Saadi Miran al-Saadi (born 1934, Baghdad- 1987 Baghdad) was an Iraqi sculptor noted for producing monumental works for Baghdad's public spaces and for developing "in the field sculpture." Life and career Born 1934 in Baghdad, he graduated from the ...

(b. 1934) sculptor *

Mahmoud Sabri Mahmoud Sabri ( ar, محمود صبري) (born 14 July 1927 - died 13 April 2012) was an Iraqi painter who was considered to be one of the pioneers of Iraqi modern art and one of the pillars of modernism in Iraqi art. Life and career Sabri w ...

(1927-2012) (alternative: Mahommed Sabri Said) pioneering painter * Jamil Sidqi al-Zahawi poet, educator and activist (1863–1936) *

Ahmed Al Safi Ahmed Al Safi ( ar, احمد الصافي, born 1971) is an Iraqi sculptor and painter. Life and career Al Safi was born in Al Diwaniyah, Iraq. He studied sculpture at the Fine Arts Academy in Baghdad. He won the Ismail Fatah Al Turk Prize fo ...

(born 1971), sculptor * Shakir Hassan Al Said (1925–2004), painter, art historian, art critic, educator and prolific author * Issam al-Said (1938-1988) painter, print-maker, designer, etcher, architect, philosopher and author *

Muhammad Sa'id al-Sakkar Muhammad Sa'id al-Saggar (Arabic: محمد سعيد الصكار) (French: Mohammed Saïd Saggar) (born 25 April 1934, Miqdadiyah) was an Iraqi poet and calligrapher. He was born in Miqdadiyah in the Diyala Governorate in 1934. He used to be a p ...

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 ...

(also given as Jawed Salim or Joad Salim) (1920–1961), sculptor *

Su'ad Salim Sua'd Salim (b. Hajj Su'ad Salim, 1918, Ankara d. 2001, Iraq) was an Iraqi artist and cartoonist who is noted for designing the coat of arms for the Iraqi Republic along with other medals and badges of honour. Life and career Sua'd Salim was bor ...

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Tamara Salman Tamara Salman (born in Baghdad, Iraq) half- Iraqi, half- British is a British designer and business woman. Her accessories company launched in 2013. She was appointed Creative director for Liberty of London in 2004 where she remained for six ye ...

20th century designer * Lorna Selim (1928- 2012) artist and English-born wife of Jawad Saleem *

Naziha Salim Naziha Salim ( ar, نزيهة سليم, 1927–15 February 2008) was an Iraqi artist, educator and author, described by the country's president, Jalal Talabani, as "the first Iraqi woman who anchored the pillars of Iraqi contemporary art". ...

(1927–2008), artist and painter (sister of Jawad Saleem) * Mohammed Hajji Selim (1883-1941) painter, father of Suad Salim,

and Nizarre Selim * Badr Shakir al-Sayyab (1926-1964) poet *

Andy Shallal Anas "Andy" Shallal ( ar, أنس شلال) (born March 21, 1955) is an Iraqi-American artist, activist, philanthropist and entrepreneur. He is best known as the founder and CEO of the Washington, D.C., area, restaurant, bookstore, and performance ...

(born 1969) artist and activist * Naseer Shamma (b. 1963) musician and singer *

Walid Siti Walid Siti (born 1952, Duhok, Iraqi Kurdistan) is a Kurdish painter and artist. He is currently based in London, United Kingdom. Education and early life He was born into a family of a Sunni Muslim background and had four brothers and a sister. ...

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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 primari ...

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Aatqall Taúaa Itikal Al-Tai is an Iraqi artist, a former television presenter, film critic and novelist born in 1949, Hilla, Iraq. Life and career Itikal Al-Tai was born on 17 March 1949 in Hilla, central Iraq, where she spent her childhood and adolescence. Her ...

(b. ?) sculptor and author * Ismail Fatah Al Turk (1934–2004), painter and sculptor

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Nazar Yahya Nazar Yahya is an Iraqi artist living in Houston, Texas. Nazar currently works on installations and inkjet on cotton paper projects. Early life and education Nazar Yahya, born in Baghdad, Iraq, began exhibiting in Baghdad in the late 1970s. He ...

(b. 1963), Iraqi-American etcher, sculptor (in metal), installation artist and photographer * Saadi Yousef (b. 1934, near Basra), poet, author and journalist * Yaqut al-Musta'simi 13th-century calligrapher

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Khalil al-Zahawi Khalil al-Zahawi ( ku, خەلێل زەهاۆی; 1946 – 25 May 2007) was a Kurdish Islamic calligrapher, and one of Iraq’s most prominent calligraphers. Life and career An ethnic Kurd and a native of Diyala Governorate, he began studying cal ...

(1946-2007), calligrapher *

Muqbil Al-Zahawi Muqbil Al-Zahawi ( ar, مقبل الزهاوى; born 1 April 1935) is an Iraqi ceramicist. His creative and powerful sculptures and reliefs have been exhibited in museums, galleries, international shows, studios, and private residences throughou ...

(b. 1935), ceramicistPocock, C., "The Reason for the Project: Art in Iraq Today", in: Azzawi, D. (ed.), ''Art in Iraq Today'', Abu Dhabi, Skira and Meem, 2011, p. 101 * Salim Mohammed Saleh Zaki painter * Haifa Zangana (born 1950), novelist, author and artist

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