“In the crowd of these memories, two generous faces appear upon us, the remaining image of a forgotten past of our old artists, in a Baghdad house with ‘shanashil’ (mashrabiyya) overlooking the Tigris in Al-Adhamiyah. In the middle of it is an open yard with a small garden, where the painter and retired Colonel Mohamed Saleh Zaki lives in this house, which he preferred over others. The artist continued his work with love and determination and painted his memories of the battles he recorded in which he fought in the plains and mountains of Iraq and the days of his youth spent on horseback riding from northern Iraq to its south. It is an interesting study of the Iraqi atmosphere, with its sultry beauty, darkness, and serenity. You can find scenes of palm trees in nature and sunset over the long, flat southern plains”. - Nouri Al-Rawi