Rashid Diab (Wad Madani, 1957) is a Sudanese painter. He studied at the School of Fine and Applied Arts in Khartoum, from which he graduated in 1978 with honours. He received his PhD at the Complutense University of Madrid in 1991. Back to Khartum in 1999, he worked as a teacher and founded an artistic center. The Encyclopedia of African History describes Diab’s colourful style as an exemplification of the next generation of artists, that followed pioneers like Ibrahim El Salahi, and “developed a more universal aesthetic that merges Western, African, and Islamic influences and expresses cultural identity in a global context.”