Salima Salih (Arabic: سالمة صالح; born 1942) is an Iraqi short story writer, translator, and artist, from the city of Mosul.
She wrote for Alef Ba’ and Al-Shabab magazines, and was nominated as one of the members of Al-Multaqa prize committee for short Arabic stories.
After graduating from high school in 1967, Salih enrolled in the Institute of Fine Arts in Baghdad, where she studied painting and music.
Salih studied music for a year and a half, after which she stopped due to the irregularity of lectures at the time, as well as her inability to reach the institute's new campus.
Additionally, she obtained her Doctorate degree in Journalism from University of Leipzig, in 1986, for her thesis "Global Trends in the Development of Social Media.
When Salih started writing, she adopted the traditional format to lay out her stories, which consisted of an introduction, body and conclusion.
Through her paintings, Salih set out to emphasize the different elements of nature, even the unpleasant ones, and to make the invisible aspects of life visible.