Anisa Ashkar started dealing with the major themes of her work early on during her years in the Midrasha school of Art. She began creating performances and series of photographs inspired by mythology, dealing with major themes she could identify in her biography. Ashkar started exhibiting during her school years and shortly after graduating she has begun exhibiting all over Europe. In May 2008 Ashkar finished her Medusa trilogy. The trilogy that started in Athens Greece in 2006, continued in Dusseldorf Germany and came to an end in Vienna Austria.