Born in Aswan in 1968.

B.A. 1991 in mural paintings from Minia University, Faculty of Fine Arts

M.A. 1998 in mural paintings from Helwan University, Faculty of Fine Arts, Department of Painting.

Ph.D. 2005 in mural painting from Minia University, Faculty of Fine Arts, in cooperation with Department of Painting, Faculty of Fine Arts at Siegen University, Germany.

Dr. Selim has been a teacher at the Painting Department of the Faculty of Fine Arts in Minia, and a member of both the Syndicate of Fine Artists and the Cairo Atelier of Artists.

He has participated in many group exhibitions at public and private since 1991, throughout Egypt, and in England and Germany. His paintings are in some museums and in private collections in Egypt and abroad. He also exhibits at the World of Art gallery in Maadi, Cairo.