Anwar Elkamony is a professional tennis player, Aplastic Anemia survivor and motivational speaker.
During one of his international tournaments in Macadonia in 2006, he was diagnosed with an Aplastic Anemia which is known more dangerous than Cancer. He made a bone marrow transplant operation and was fighting with disease for long 7 years. He faced severe bone marrow rejection GvHD, that almost destroys all his body functions. His weight reached 130 kg, and he survived from gangrene on both hands. But he succeeded to win the sickness and come back to professional sports again, even all doctors believed it was impossible.
After long 7 years of sickness he became FIRST ATHLETE GOT INTERNATIONALLY RANKED AFTER BONE MARROW TRANSPLANT OPERATION.
In February 2017 was produced documentary movie named "7th Century Before Birth" about Anwar life story. Movie were officially selected at Alexandria Film Festival and Dubai Film Market. Was shown in cancer foundations in Egypt and abroad. In 2019 the movie were shown in Egyptian cinema theaters, all profit from tickets was donated to "Baheya Breast Cancer Foundation".
Anwar currently is a sports ambassador of Baheya Foundation.
Participated as a key note speaker at Wiki Stage and Tedx events in Egypt.
Anwar also was honored in many countries around the world, such as Spain, Switzerland, Tunisia, UAE and Egypt.
Since October 2020 writing weekly inspirational articles for biggest inspirational website in Arab World "Molhem".
Currently still participating at international tennis tournaments to break more records and reach highest rank.
Anwar inspires people on and off courts. Anyone. He gives hope to embrace life, shows to stand up, on the path to full recovery for many :
”Before we saw you we wanted to die, and now you give us a spirit to live and we sure we can also come back to our dreams." Tough words, yet words of life! He knows you can’t be liked by everyone, but Anwar federates way more people than many of us!
Altruism at heart, he gives back to all: children, teenagers and adults.
