Anwar is an Egyptian-Sudanese comics artist and political cartoonist. Anwar is part of the new wave of young political cartoonists who emerged in the newly established private media in 2006 during the last years of former dictator Hosni Mubarak. In 2007, he started his professional career as a cartoonist for Al-Badeel, an Egyptian daily, while studying biomedical engineering. He worked for several newspapers and magazines. In 2010 he moved to Almasry-Alyoum, Egypt's largest-circulation daily, where he still publishes his cartoons. The Egyptian revolution that broke out in 2011 was central to his development as an artist. His work defends the values ​​of social justice, freedom of expression and equality in Egyptian society and opposes the voices of political Islam and the military regime that dominated the political scene at the time. As a result, his cartoons attracted international attention. In 2017, Anwar was awarded one of the most prestigious awards in Egyptian journalism, the Mustafa and Ali Amin Prize, as the best political cartoonist in Egypt. After the 2019 Arab Spring political reforms were quashed, Anwar was arrested and deported from Egypt. He moved to Lebanon, then settled in Berlin and currently works at CORRECTIV.