È un vignettista siriano-palestinese nato nel campo profughi palestinese Yarmouk, in Siria. Nel 2014 ha vinto il Press cartoonist award, il riconoscimento mondiale per la caricatura organizzato da Cartoonists for peace organization.
Hani Abbas is a Syrian-Palestinian cartoonist, born in the large Palestinian refugee camp of Yarmouk, in Syria. In 2014, he was awarded the Editorial cartoon international prize.