al-Ubeidi), painter Mahmoud Obaidi (b. Baghdad 1966) painter, conceptual artist, sculptor, film-maker Madiha Omar (1908 – 2005) pioneer of the Hurufiyya movement Widad Al-Orfali (b. 1929) artist and musician P Fred Parhad (b. 1947) sculptor Q Qais Al-Sindy (b. 1967), an Iraqi contemporary artist and painter. R Husain al-Radi (1924–1963), politician, poet, and painter Nuha al-Radi (1941-2004), diarist, ceramicist, painter Khaled al-Rahal (1926-1987), sculptor and painter Nadhim Ramzi (1928–2013) artist and graphic designer Abdul Qadir Al Rassam (1882–1952), painter Wafaa Abed Al Razzaq (b. 1952) poet S Miran al-Saadi (b. 1934) sculptor Mahmoud Sabri (1927-2012) (alternative: Mahommed Sabri Said) pioneering painter Jamil Sidqi al-Zahawi poet, educator and activist (1863–1936) Ahmed Al Safi (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 Jawad Saleem (also given as Jawed Salim or Joad Salim) (1920–1961), sculptor Su'ad Salim (b. 1918) Tamara Salman 20th century designer Lorna Selim (1928- 2012) artist and English-born wife of Jawad Saleem Naziha Salim (1927–2008), artist and painter (sister of Jawad Saleem) Mohammed Hajji Selim (1883-1941) painter, father of Suad Salim, Jawad Saleem, Naziha Salim and Nizarre Selim Badr Shakir al-Sayyab (1926-1964) poet Andy Shallal (born 1969) artist and activist Naseer Shamma (b. 1963) musician and singer Walid Siti (b. 1954) Vian Sora (born 1976), painter T Ali Talib (b. 1944), painter Aatqall Taúaa (b. ?) sculptor and author Ismail Fatah Al Turk (1934–2004), painter and sculptor W Yahya Al-Wasiti, 13th century illustrator Y Nazar Yahya (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 Z Khalil al-Zahawi (1946-2007), calligrapher Muqbil Al-Zahawi (b. 1935), ceramicist Salim Mohammed Saleh Zaki painter Haifa Zangana (born 1950), novelist, author and artist See also Baghdad School Hurufiyya movement Iraqi art Islamic art Islamic architecture Islamic calligraphy List of Iraqi women artists Major Iraqi public artworks Al-Shaheed Monument. Baghdad The Monument to the Unknown Soldier, Baghdad Victory Arch, Baghdad References Further reading Benezit Dictionary of Asian Artists, Oxford University Press, 2017 Bloom, J. and Blair, S.S. (eds), Grove Encyclopedia of Islamic Art & Architecture, Vols 1–3, Oxford University Press, 2009 Davis, B., "The Iraqi Century of Art," Artnet Magazine, July, 2008, Online Dougherty, B.K. and Ghareeb, E.A., Historical Dictionary of Iraq, Scarecrow Press, 2013 Farhat, Maymanah,