He was the secretary of the Kurdistan Artists Organization.
Anwar Shekhani was born in 1951 and started his theatrical career at the age of 19. Since then, he has appeared in 60 plays and 10 films and has won several awards.
In 1991, he was one of the founders of the Kurdistan Artists Association/#Erbil#, and in 1992, he was a founding member of Kurdistan TV.
He was also one of the founders of the Kurdistan Artist's Union, He was elected as the Secretary General of the Kurdistan Artists Union in 1998. He passed away of cancer in Erbil on #23-09-2019# at the age of 68.[1]