He was born in 1930 in Kermanshah. His parents were Assyrians. He has held more than 100 solo exhibitions and more than 200 joint exhibitions in Iran, Canada, the United States, Australia and Europe.
He has painted the covers of dozens of books and the poetry of poets. He also wrote four books in the field of art education and thousands of poems such as verse, duet, haiku, poetry, poetry and ghazal in Assyrian.
He was also a master of storytelling, translating 150 ghazals of the famous Iranian poet Hafiz into Assyrian with preservation of weight, rhyme, meaning and satire. However, he has translated most of the works of Nima Youshij, Iraj Mirza, Mirzadeh Ishqi and Parvin Itsami into Assyrian.
Hannibal Alkhas taught art for 35 years as follows: five years at Boys' Arts, six years at Montesloo College in Illinois, USA as Group Director and Resident, 17 years at Tehran University College of Fine Arts, seven years. In 1974, he published articles and writings as an art critic for the newspaper Keyhan for four years.
In his exhibitions, modernist painter Hannibal Alkhas tried to appeal to the audience with his own humor and inventions, including the provision of events, the choice of Anbar location for the exhibition, and the humorous paintings of poets Obaid Zakani and Rumi.
At one point in his career, he was more interested in painting portraits, so he was given the title of photographer. He then painted portraits of poets from the time of Arif Qazvini to the poets of the present on a large painting.
In addition to thousands of small and large paintings, Hannibal Alkhas has created 300 square meters of wall paintings, three curtains consisting of 15 pieces and four curtains consisting of eight pieces.
Another of Hannibal Alkhas' most important and well-known works is a large painting of 15 pieces entitled Creation dedicated to the stages of creation of the world.
Most of Hannibal Alkhas' students are now teachers in Iran's best universities. For two years he was the director of Gilgamesh Gallery, one of the first contemporary galleries in Iran.
In 2002, he celebrated his 50th birthday at the Freedom Museum, three years late.
In 2008, he was given a special ceremony by the Assyrians at the Ashtar Gallery. Since the establishment of the Ilaha Gallery in Tehran in 2000, an exhibition of Hannibal Alkhas' works has been held every year on the anniversary of his birth.[1]