Career
He received degrees in painting and sculpture from the Baghdad Institute of Fine Arts and a degree in sculpture from the Accademia di Belle Arti di Roma. He held six exhibition for sculpture and five exhibitions for paintings in Rome, Baghdad and Beirut. He has designed and executed several monuments and statues in Baghdad, the most famous of which is the turquoise blue split dome of the Al-Shaheed Monument (Martyrs' Monument), completed in 1983.
He returned to Baghdad where he died 21 July 2004.