About

Mohamed Anwar is an Egyptian-Sudanese comic artist and political cartoonist. Anwar is part of the new wave of young political artists who found a home in the newly established private media in 2006 during the last years of former dictator Hosni Mubarak.

In 2007, Anwar began his professional career as a cartoonist for Al-Badeel; an Egyptian daily newspaper, while studying biomedical engineering. Since then, Anwar has worked for several Egyptian and Arabic newspapers and magazines. In 2010, he moved to Almasry-Alyoum; Egypt's largest circulation daily newspaper, where he still publishes his cartoons.

The Egyptian revolution that erupted in 2011 became a pivotal point in Anwar's evolution as an artist. His work defends the values of social justice, freedom of expression, and equality in Egyptian society, often opposing the voices of political Islam and the military regime. His cartoons attracted international attention.

In 2017, Anwar was awarded one of the most prestigious prizes in Egyptian journalism, the Mustafa and Ali Amin Prize, as the best political cartoonist in Egypt.

After the major backslide of political reforms, Anwar was arrested and deported from Egypt in 2019. He moved to Lebanon, then settled in Berlin and is currently a fellow at the german investigative journalism newsroom CORRECTIV. where he produced his first graphic novel "Erdogan” a graphic Biography of the Turkish president, which he worked on in collaboration with the Turkish Journalist Can Dündar.