Fahrelnissa Zeid

Artist of Inner Worlds

Zeid in her Paris studio, 1960s, Photographer Unknown, Courtesy of Raad Zeid Al-Hussein, Rephotographed by Tate Photography

Turkish-Jordanian painter Fahrelnissa Zeid was born Fahrinissa Şakir on December 6, 1901, into an aristocratic family on Büyükada Island in Istanbul. Her father, Şakir Pasha, had served as the Ambassador to Greece where he met Zeid’…