Sua'd Salim was born in Ankara, Ottoman Empire in 1918 to Iraqi parents.
[1] His parents were both originally from Mosul in Northern Iraq,[2] but his father, Mohammed Hajji Selim, a military officer with the Ottoman army, had been stationed in Ankara at the time of his birth.
[4] His father was an amateur artist who later taught drawing to the children of King Ghazi.
[8] He married Madiha, the sister of Abdul Jabbar Mahmoud, the personal pilot of King Ghazi.
His most significant designs include:[11] Bloom, J. and Blair, S.S. (eds), Grove Encyclopedia of Islamic Art & Architecture, vol.