He achieved international recognition for the quality of his photographs which recorded scenes of every-day life and people.

[3] Following the First World War, a photographer named Tartaran, set up a studio at the entrance to the Mosul Elementary School.

[5] His studio and photography shop, situated in Al-Dawasah Street, Mosul (opposite the Sinal Atlas) was simply called Murad Photographer.

At sunrise, he could be found at the riverside, where he loved to watch fishing boats and attempted to capture the fisherman at work.

[15] His most well-known and widely reproduced photographs are: He is the subject of a book, Murad Al-Dagestani: The Dialectic of Man and Nature, written by Professor Najman Yassin and published in Baghdad in 1985.