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Daniel Drennan ElAwar is an illustrator and printmaker who works within a documentary genre. His work focuses primarily on issues of displacement, dispossession, and disinheritance. Drennan ElAwar attended Syracuse University, and later Parson's School of Design, both New York and Paris campuses.

In 2009, he founded a Beirut-based artists' collective, ‎جمع اليد (Jamaa Al-Yad), which produces posters, calligraphy, and other artworks of a social activist nature. The collective’s work has been exhibited at the Queens Museum and Museum of Modern Art along with other international venues.

He was formerly associate art director of Saveur magazine in New York City, and most recently worked as an assistant professor of graphic design at the American University of Beirut, where he lived for 12 years. From March through September, 2017, he was named a resident artist at the Newark Print Shop in New Jersey.