Ihab shaker born in 1933 received his first lesson in art when he was a still a boy with the Italian professor Carlo Mlinoti,  then joined the Leonardo Da Vince school and later graduated from the faculty of plastic arts in 1957.

He began his work in the press in 1953 when he was still in the first year of his academic studies. Shaker started his work with the late prominent Abdel Salam El Sherif in El Goumhuria from 1960 he joined Rose El Youssef since 1956 he was  a prominent figure in Sabah El kheir. From 1970..

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A juxtaposition of contradictions, illustrating the contrast between local  themes and modern approach, between childlike spontaneity and  reasoned control, between realistic vision and surrealistic whims, between authentic embodiment and convoluted simplification bordering  on the abstract, between mocking exaggeration and contemplative perception.