Sheikh Anwar, son of Sayyid Ahmad, son of Sheikh Abdulkarim, son of Sheikh Ahmadi, son of Sheikh Abdulkarim Qutbi Barzanji, was born in 1919 in Koya. At the age of seven, he learned the basics of reading and the Holy Quran in Koya fuel cells. In 1930, he went to Koya primary school and completed his primary education in 1937. He went to religious education with his uncle Sheikh Najmaddin Barzanji for two years. In 1941 he went back to formal education in Koya secondary school until 1944 when he dropped out.
He learned the principles of poetry and the art of Kurdish songs from his uncle Sheikh Najmaddin.
Sheikh Anwar entered politics in early 1946, joining the Iraqi National Liberation Party, a semi-open part of the Iraqi Communist Party. He opened a library in the new market of Koya and became the headquarters of his party. He was persecuted for his political position and lived a very difficult life. He lived away from Koya for a long time and lived with his cousins in the villages of Alaja and Mirzagha near Murtka in the Erbil plain. In 1958, after the July 14 revolution, he became an employee of the Erbil Municipality and was able to live a simple and normal life.
Sheikh Anwar was a Kurdish poet. He listened to the poems of his father, who was nicknamed Husseini, since childhood. He had a sense of poetry and he had a talent for poetry. Because in the early 1940s, he read and memorised his father's poems, as well as poems from other great Kurdish poets such as (Nali, Salim, Kurdi, Haji Qadir Koyi, Bekhud and Safi).
He died on 05-12-2006 in Erbil and was buried there.[1]