Anis Hamdoun was born in 1985 in Homs, Syria, and grew up in a political leftist active theater family. In 2004 he began studying chemistry, but spent the most of the time with theater, where his grandfather Farhan Bulbul, one of the best known Theater authors and scholars in the Arab world, teaching him. From 2006 Anis Hamdoun worked as an assistant director for Farhan Bulbul. At the same time he taught theater and English at private schools and developed their own lesson planning that the Figure of the Arab narrator uses to help children in their personality development support. In the wake of the Arab Revolution against the Assad regime was Anis Hamdoun politically active, participated in demonstrations and helped international journalists with their reports on Homs. As a prelude to a cultural movement of the revolution In 2011 he realized his own theater project in the district of Al-Khalidya. Few months later the neighborhood was destroyed by the Assad regime; in an attack in which 150 people died and 300 were injured, also Anis Hamdoun was seriously injured. In 2012 he had to leave Syria, as the secret service arrests a close friend. He came to Osnabrück, Germany, at the end of 2013 via Egypt. For the English theater group The Ostensibles Anis Hamdoun staged here The Picture of Dorian Gray and Tartuffe. At the Theater Osnabrück Anis Hamdoun staged for the 6th Spieltriebe Festival the self-written piece The Trip, which shares his experiences describes as a border crosser between Syria and Germany. The Trip won the prize of the Nachtkritik theater magazine in January 2016. He leads the „Artist Training for Professionals – Performing Arts“ at the University of Arts Berlin till now. In 2019 he and his colleagues have established the art collective Critical I, for theater, cinema and music that is based in Berlin.