- 1938 Artist and architect Issam El-Said was born in Baghdad, Iraq. He is the grandson of former Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri El-Said who was in charge several times during the thirties, forties, and the 1950s. His father is Sabah Nuri El-Said, and his mother is of Egyptian origin, and her name is Ismat Fahmy. - 1961 Graduated with a BA in Architecture from Corpus Christi College, University of Oxford, UK. - 1962 - 1964 Studied art at Hammersmith College of Art and Design, west London. - 1962 - 1963 Participated in an exhibition at Woodstock Gallery in London and an exhibition with a group of Arab artists at Banouch Gallery in Bahrain. - 1963 Participated in an exhibition at the Dagmar Wirth Gallery in Berlin, Germany. - 1964 Participated in an exhibition with artist Nuha Al-Radi at Gallery Dagmar Wirth in Berlin, Germany, and at Litchfield Gallery in New York, USA. - 1969 Participated in an exhibition with artist Munira Al-Qadi at Sultan Gallery in Kuwait. - 1977 Participated in the exhibition of the Victoria and Albert Museum in London and Christie's Gallery of Contemporary Art in London. - 1976 Co-authored the book “Engineering Concepts in Islamic Art”, issued by the Islamic World Festival in London. - 1980 Participated in the Third International Biennale of Graphic Art at the Iraqi Cultural Center in London and the “Influence of Calligraphy on Contemporary Arab Art” exhibition at the Iraqi Cultural Center in London. - 1982 Participated in the Contemporary Arab Graphic Exhibition at the Gravity Gallery in London. - 1983 Participated in the third exhibition of contemporary Arab artists at the Iraqi Cultural Center in London. - Before his death, the artist was working on obtaining a PhD in the “Methodology of Geometric Proportionality in Islamic Architecture” from the University of Newcastle upon Tyne, but he could not complete it due to his death. - 1988 The artist passed away at the age of fifty in London, United Kingdom. - 1989 A book about the artist entitled "Issam El-Said: Artist and Researcher" was published by the Issam El-Said Foundation. - 1993 Part of his Ph.D. thesis was published in a book entitled “Islamic Art and Architecture: The System of Engineering Design” by the Issam El-Said Foundation. - Works by artist Issam El-Said are found all over the world from private collections such as the Ibrahimi Collection and public collections such as the British Museum and Victoria and Albert Museum in London, Museum of Modern Art in New York, National Museum of Modern Art in Baghdad and National Museum of Modern Art in Amman.