Naziha Salim

Naziha Salim (Arabic: نزيهة سليم, 10 January 1927–15 February 2008) was an Iraqi artist, educator and author.

Her father, Hajji Mohammed Salim (1883-1941) was a painter, while her mother was also an artist and a skilled embroiderer.

[8] The artist Abdul Qadir Al Rassam, the first Iraqi to paint in the European style, was an older relative (possibly her father's cousin).

[2] In the 1960s Salim returned to the Fine Arts Institute as a teacher and remained at the school until her retirement in the 1980s.

President Jalal Talabani called her death a "big loss to Iraqi art and culture".