- 1939 Born in Khanaqin, Diyala Province. His family then moved to the Al-Fadl district, Baghdad. - His family originates from the Twerij district of Karbala Governorate, Iraq. His full name is Alaa Hussein Bashir Al-Jubouri, the only son in a family with two sisters. His father was a former police officer who served as the police chief of the Kadhimiya district in Baghdad, which led Alaa Bashir to move between several Iraqi cities, accompanying his parents. - 1944-1956 Completed his primary, middle, and high school studies in Baghdad schools. - 1957 Accepted as a student at the College of Medicine, University of Baghdad. - 1958 Participated in the exhibition that was held in the Olympic Club after the 14 July Revolution. - 1959-1961 Studied at the Institute of Fine Arts on the evening shift while studying medicine. - 1961 Held a joint exhibition with the artist Saadi Al-Kaabi. - 1963 Graduated from the College of Medicine at the University of Baghdad with a Bachelor of Medicine and Bachelor of Surgery (M.B.Ch.B) degree. - 1963-1966 Joined the Iraqi Air Force. - 1970 Obtained a Certificate of Specialization in Reconstructive Surgery (FRCS Ed., Fellowship of the Royal Colleges of Surgeons) from Edinburgh, UK. - He is a renowned plastic surgeon and worked as a professor and head of the Plastic Surgery Department at Al-Nahrain University (formerly Saddam University) in Baghdad. He was also the General Supervisor of the Al-Wasati Center for Reconstructive Surgery in Baghdad and the head of the Scientific Council for Reconstructive Surgery in Baghdad. He has published and authored numerous research papers and studies in plastic surgery. - Even when he was a member of the Impressionists Group, his style was violent, deep, and expressionist, tending to surrealism; he used a lot of expressive, symbolic themes. Most of his works show the deep human suffering and calamities that the Iraqi people have suffered and that he has gone through over the years. Some symbols are often repeated in his works, such as crows, masks, and terrified faces, which are all allusions to what the Iraqi people, the artist included, were experiencing. - 1971-1972 Trained in ‘Plastics and Reconstructive Surgery’ at Bristol, UK, and Paris, France. - 1972 Participated in the Arabic Art Biennial Exhibition in Tripoli, Libya. - 1973 Participated in the retrospective Iraqi art exhibition at the Iraqi National Museum of Modern Art, Baghdad. - 1974 Participated in the Cultural Festival of Al-Thawra Newspaper, Baghdad. - 1974-1975 Participated in an exhibition with four artists from Basra. - 1974-1976 Participated in the 1st and 2nd Arab Biennial Exhibitions in Baghdad and Rabat. - 1975 Participated in the exhibition of the International Association of Fine Arts ‘Against Racial Discrimination’, and the 2nd April Exhibition at the Iraqi Museum of Modern Art, Baghdad. - 1976 Participated in the 3rd April Exhibition at the Iraqi National Museum of Modern Art, Baghdad, and the Arab Art Biennial, Kuwait. - 1976-1982 Participated in the exhibitions of the Fine Arts Directorate inside and outside Iraq. - 1977 Participated in the itinerant contemporary Iraqi art exhibition in Bonn, Paris, Washington, and London, and in the 4th April Exhibition at the Iraqi National Museum of Modern Art, Baghdad. - 1978 Participated in the New Delhi Triennial Exhibition in India and the 5th April Exhibition at the Iraqi National Museum of Modern Art, Baghdad. - 1979 Participated in the exhibition of sketches for the Mediterranean region in Tunis and the Baghdad International Poster Exhibition. He also held a solo exhibition at the Al-Riwaq Hall, Baghdad. - 1980 Participated in the Baghdad International Poster Exhibition in London and the Biennial in Kuwait, held a solo exhibition at the Al-Riwaq Hall in Baghdad, and won an appreciation award in the Arab Biennial Exhibition and participated in the 7th April Exhibition in the Hall of the Iraqi National Museum of Modern Art, Baghdad. - 1981 Held a joint exhibition with the artist Mohammad Muhraddin and a solo exhibition at the Al-Riwaq Hall, Baghdad. - 1982 Participated in the Baghdad International Poster Exhibition in Paris, won the second prize in the competition, participated in the second Al-Wasiti Festival, and held a solo exhibition at Al-Riwaq Hall in Baghdad. - 1982-1983 The former president wanted to choose a medical team for himself, and 25 - 30 doctors were chosen, including the surgeon Ala Bashir, and they went to meet Saddam Hussein, after which Saddam asked to meet Ala again. When Ala went to the palace again, he talked about the history of Iraq and art. Three days later, the general director of Ibn Sina Hospital called Ala and informed him that he had been chosen to be among Saddam's medical staff. Ala would later reveal that this moment was the end of his freedom, as said in his interview with Charlie Rose in 2006. - Ala became a close confidant to the former president and was fond of his art, in which Saddam said that the artist’s works would be “a record of Iraq at this time in history”, as stated by Hay Hill Gallery. - 1984 Held a solo exhibition at Al-Riwaq Hall, Baghdad. - 1986 Participated in the Baghdad International Festival for Fine Arts, Baghdad. - 1987 Participated in the Festival de Cagnes-sur-Mer, France. - 1988 Participated in the second Baghdad International Festival for Fine Arts in Baghdad and won the first prize. - In the eighties, the artist, the surgeon, excelled in restoring amputated limbs, especially in 1983 when he successfully operated to restore a severed hand at Al-Wasiti Hospital (formerly called At-Tawari’) in Baghdad. He also treated many patients who had suffered burns and deformities as a result of the Iran-Iraq war, the Second Gulf War, and the US invasion. - In the nineties, the artist began sculpting in clay; the details of the human body were shown in a strong anatomical and expressive fashion, expressing the pain and suffering of humanity from wars and pains. - 1990 Participated in the Iraqi Contemporary Art Exhibition, Cyprus. - 1992 Held a solo exhibition of sculpture at the Arts Center, Baghdad. - 1994 Held a solo exhibition of painting at the Arts Center, Baghdad. - 1995 Held a solo exhibition of painting at the Arts Center, Baghdad. - 1996 Held a solo exhibition of painting at the Arts Center, Baghdad. - 1997 Held a solo exhibition entitled ‘Shadows of Truth’ at the Arts Center, Baghdad, and won the Creativity Prize in Fine Arts. - 1998 Held two solo exhibitions for drawing and one for graphics, entitled ‘Ink on Paper’, at the Arts Center in Baghdad. - 1999 Held several solo exhibitions of painting and sculpture in Iraq, and he called it ‘Pleasure’. Then he toured several capitals outside Iraq, the Art Sima Gallery in Paris, the Bolton Gallery in London, the United Nations Center in New York, and the Arts Palace in Vienna, and he was awarded the Order of the Flag. - 2000 One of his sculptural works was chosen to be a monument in Baghdad called ‘The Meeting’. The monument consists of two rectangular stone blocks, facing and attached to the upper part with bends that suggest an intimate embrace, which basically represents the embrace of a woman and a man. Still, the Iraqi Presidential Office issued a law in 2010 to demolish all monuments and statues built before the occupation of Iraq, and the monument was demolished in February of this year. - 2002 A new monument to one of the artist’s sculptures entitled ‘The Scream’ was built in the Amiriya area in Baghdad, symbolizing the Amiriya shelter incident in February 1991 during the Second Gulf War. The military forces bombarded the shelter, and it was destroyed, and all the refugees who were inside were martyred. This sculptural work showed a human head surrounded by gigantic, solid stone blocks, the facial skin tightened excessively, with tense surface features of many shades, while the composition of the mouth suggests an eternal, stiff cry. The overall scene of this sculptural work stirs terror in the soul and moves emotions to the extent of the hardship that the Iraqi people went through at the time. On the other hand, it imparts the bitterness of a people's ongoing plight. - 2018 Held a solo exhibition at the Artists Association in Nottingham, England, entitled ‘Illusion’. - 2019 Participated in the exhibition of Contemporary Artists from Iraq at Ras Al-Ain Gallery in Amman, Jordan. He began two exhibitions in January. He held a solo exhibition, ‘Times of Protrusions’, which was held at Al-Markhiya Gallery in the Katara Cultural Village in Doha, Qatar, lasting until March. The 2nd January solo exhibition was held by Al-Markhiya Gallery, ‘Twisting Fantasies’, at the Fire Brigades of the Artists Headquarters. - 2021 Held a solo exhibition at Gallery Different, London, entitled ‘Encrypted Memory.’ - 2023 Held a solo exhibition at Sultain Al-Owais Art Cultural Foundation, Dubai, UAE, entitled ‘Forgetfulness,’ and another one at the MP Birla Millennium Art Gallery, London, entitled ‘Thoughts from the Clay of the Two Rivers.’ - 2024 Held a solo exhibition at MP Birla Millennium Art Gallery, London, entitled ‘Hard Bargain.’ - 2025 Held a solo exhibition at Our Lady of Lourdes, Gillespie Hall, Surrey, entitled ‘The Savior’ and another at MP Birla Millennium Art Gallery, London, entitled ‘The Point Bank.’ - Member of the Iraqi Fine Artists Association. - Member of the Iraqi Artists Syndicate. - Member of the International Association of Fine Arts. - Member of the Iraqi Impressionists Group. - Member of the Fine Artists Association in Nottingham, Britain. - Member of the Iraqi Doctors Association. - Member of the British Hand Surgery Society. - Member of the International Burns Society.