Ibrahim El-Salahi, Sudanese, born 1930, ink and color marker drawing on paper depicting an abstract composition, 1976. Signed and dated lower left. Ibrahim El Salahi is a painter, former public servant and diplomat. He is one of the foremost visual artists of the Khartoum School, considered as part of African Modernism and the pan Arabic Hurufiyya art movement, that combined traditional forms of Islamic calligraphy with contemporary artworks. Arab Drawings And Modernist Art Collectibles.