Born in Damascus in 1963, he studied graphic design and animation in Damascus, Rome and Cairo. He has been a professor since 1993 and was Dean of the IUST at the International University of Damascus from 2006 to 2015, drawing for the newspapers Alwatan and Alraya in Syria. In 2016, he fled to Germany, where he now lives in Dresden. He publishes in the Süddeutsche Zeitung and Almajalla in London.