the subject of the design for Shaheed, Al-Turk made the following comments: While living and working in United Arab Emirates, Fatah contracted cancer. He returned to Baghdad where he died 21 July 2004. Work Fatah's most well known work is Shaheed (also known as the Matyrs Monument) built as a tribute to those who fell in battle defending Iraq during the Second Qadisiya (Iran-Iraq war). The Art in America magazine rated Shaheed as the most beautiful design in the Middle East. However, he also produced paintings in oil such as Ashtar, a mixed media work on paper now in the Jordanian National Gallery of Fine Arts. List of notable public works Ancient Arabic Medicine, Baghdad, Bronze and Marble, 8 × 2 metres, 1982 Tigris and Euphrates, Haifa Street, Baghdad, 5 metres, 1982 Two Figures, bronze sculpture, 360 X 180 cm, 1967 Lawyer's Union Facade, 1967 Abu Nuwas, sculpture, now in Abu Nuwas Street, Baghdad, 1972 Monuments to Iraqi Poets - al-Waisati (National Arts Centre), 1972; al-Farabi (Zawra Park); Abu Nawas, Abou Nawas Street, 1972; Ma’arouf al-Rasfi, and al-Kazimi, al Kazimiya, Baghdad, 1973; (all in bronze) Al Shaheed Monument, (also known as the Matyrs Monument), 1981–1983 in Palestine Street, Baghdad Conference Palace, 1983 The Guardian of the Fertile Crescent, 2001–2010, now in the Mathaf: Arab Museum of Modern Art in Doha, Qatar Maaruf al-Risafi (after the Iraqi poet of the same name) Al-Risafi roundabout, Baghdad See also Iraqi art Islamic art List of Iraqi artists References External links 2004 deaths 1934 births Abstract sculptors Iraqi contemporary artists Iraqi sculptors People from Basra Deaths from cancer in Iraq