Ibrahim Zayer was born 1944 in the southern city of Amara, who committed suicide by shooting his head on 24 April 1972 in Beirut.

He was a painter and journalist, graduated from the Institute of Fine Arts in Baghdad.

Participated in various group exhibitions organized by the Association of Fine Artists, and the group of innovators.

He worked for a period of time for Iraqi newspapers and magazines, then moved to Beirut, where he lived until departed.

He was an activist in one of the Palestinian organizations.

The circumstances of his suicide and his reasons were ambiguous, some attributed to political concerns, others to emotional and even financial factors, but was given Funeral procession in Baghdad as "martyr of the Palestinian resistance armed struggle against the Zionist enemy.
He was not known as a poet until after his suicide, when the Lebanese magazine MAWAQIF published a poem entitled "The Rose of the Victims" the last poem he wrote.