Tahia Mohammed Halim

Place: Dongola

Born: 1919

Death: 2003

Biography:

Tahia Mohammed Halim, known as Tahia Halim, was an Egyptian painter born in Dongola, Sudan in 1919. She was raised in the Royal Palace of Cairo, where her father worked as the chamberlain of King Fouad I of Egypt. Halim studied art under important drawing teachers, including the Lebanese painter Affa Al-Nammoury. She is celebrated for her poetic and folkloric images of Egypt, frequently depicting boats on the Nile, Nubian women, and domestic life. Halim died in 2003.