Abdul Jabbar Abdul Karim Al Yahya was born in the city of Zubayr in Iraq. Where he lived his childhood and the young artist went through four sources had an impact in his career

The first is his obsession with cutting black coal on the walls of his house. Once he completed his artistic work, he received a great prize that he did not expect from his father, and this "treatment" made him more dependent on his hobby in art.

Second: His great cousin (Nasser Al Kharji), who was a distinguished artist, sculptor and educator at the time.

Third: the book of zoology for his older brother in secondary school, which began with the transfer and tradition, which earned him the skills of drawing accuracy.

The presence of the British camp for German and Italian soldiers during the Second World War near Zubayr. They used to visit the village to paint minarets, Arab faces and buildings. (Abboud-2007)

He moved to Bahrain at the age of six to work and try to continue the study, but he was linked to work and after a year and a half moved to the Kingdom to work in the city of Rahima Eastern Province. Done a weekly page issued by the newspaper Medina in 1951 for a year and a half, and after returning from the United States settled in Jeddah, a worker in the air force from 1952 to 1969.

Al-Zubair received his primary and intermediate education. During his studies, he showed great artistic abilities and found great encouragement from the teachers of art education. He was also surrounded by a cultural atmosphere that contributed to his early culture. He studied the works of the great artists Leonardo Da Vinci, Michael Angelo, (Raphael) and other artists took the works of artists of the Renaissance and the Impressionists trainees and studied and managed to transfer and simulated. He then went on to study electronics in the United States.

He brought together the pen and the brush and the creative mixture to achieve the idea and presented it in two plates, each with its own taste and taste. (Cultural magazine 2003) Al Yahya has held many personal exhibitions in addition to his internal and external participation, which is considered among the hundreds among design, drawing and painting.

 His works are mostly based on two themes: the first is heritage and the second is women. He began filming the animals and alleys in his city before the oil appeared and then he was influenced by the new culture after oil. Finally his work focused on women as a recurring element in his work, His flesh (Sunan _2007m) most of his work included human relations in the ocean (houses, palms and land).