Asim Hafidh (Arabic: عاصم حافظ, (1886-1978) (alternatively Asem Hafedh or Assim Hafiz) was an Iraqi artist, educator and writer.

He is noted for publishing the first Iraqi book on fine art, entitled Rules for Drawing from Nature.

[3] Along with painters, Mohammed Hajji Selim (1883-1941), Mohammed Saleh Zaki (1888-1974) and Abdul Qadir Al Rassam (1882-1952), Hafidh was part of a small group of Iraqis to study in Europe, and subsequently the first to take up easel painting and work in the European style of painting.

[4] This group became known as the Ottoman artists and were largely responsible for stimulating an interest in Western art amongst the Iraqi population, which in turn, inspired the next generation of modern Iraqi artists.

In 1935 he published the first Iraqi book on fine art, entitled Rules for Drawing from Nature.