Ramadan Salim was born in 1953 in Azizia, Libya. He is writer, journalist, and film critic, who began writing in 1979 about Libyan literature and never stopped since.
Ramadan Salim is also the director of International Mediterranean Film Festival for Documentary and Short Films (under the auspices of the Libyan Ministry of Culture).

His work focuses on Arabic culture in general, and on Magreb literature and cinema in particular. His works include the novels Journey and Discover (1997), Critical Dimension (2000), and the non-fiction books on cinema named The individual man in the circle of adventure (1981) and Cinema. The horizon and the reality (1982).
He is the chief editor of the monthly arts magazine Rainbow, a journalist at the daily newspaper February and a blogger, a film critic and reviewer for various Libyan newspapers and magazines.