Kianoush's arts and activities

Photo by: Kianoush after one year, I think I can talk with you! but I prefer to talk to you in English, like many nights before that I talked with your big beautiful nose "la tour Eiffel" while coming back from the Long Hop by feet! now I will tell how many layers you have. Yes, you are a multilayer city. let's talk about your layers from above! your sky is amazing. since spring till November, you start creating your magic art with clouds, sunlight and the sky. each sunset is different from the other. your sky is the "moodiest" ever in the World... when the sunset ends, the big nose is being transformed to a great lighthouse with turning lights, and I feel myself as a crazy captain surrounded by the rocks! when I am walking in your streets, the only name that I can remember is "Haussmann". and a crazy story of "destroying and rebuilding"... watching normally, there are a lot of cafe beside the streets, a lot of people sitt...

Today's first page cartoon of "Le Monde" newspaper in France, 21th December 2010 is about Jafar Panahi, one of the most respected and famous Iranian film maker. Jean Plantu drew his cartoon about this Iranian artist to show his support of him. It is one of the most renowned filmmakers of the " new wave " of Iran . The director Jafar Panahi has been sentenced to six years in prison , his lawyer said . Iran's judiciary banned him also to make films or leave the country during the next 20 years . The Iranian Ministry of Culture and Islamic guidance is accused of " plotting against the regime a film on the post-election events " , that is to say about the events that followed the disputed re-election of Mahmoud Ahmadinejad In June 2009. Jean Plantu is the founder and president of "Cartooning for Peace" International cartooning organization based in Paris. his cartoons in being publi...

Co-operating with the ECPM (Ensemble Contre la Pain de Mort), Kianoush is presenting the situation of the death penalty in Iran and talking with the students of high schools to motivate them to be the abolitionists. Kianoush also expalins about the theme and the elements of his "anti-death penalty" cartoons and discusses with them in a Q&A debate.

Photo by: Michael Urell there are a lot of nights that I passed till morning. but last night was one of my special and strange one, because I spent it among my unique and nice classmates. it was very hard for me to smile, drink, dance and talk together with them while thinking that it maybe the last time... although I started this course for learning French language, but now I have been taught much lessons. the most important lesson for me is the same fact that "Saadi" the great Iranian poet told more than 700 years ago: " The children of humanity are each others limbs that shares an origin in their creator" it is exactly the same sentence that is located on united nations. I learnt one more time that life is very short and I have to say goodbye.I am sure the time that I passed with my professor and friends, will bring me a lot of inspirations to create a lot of impressive caricatures, presentations and activities. special thanks to my professor...

Marco Nassivera Arte reportage chief editor and Cécile Allegra director of a documentary on the earthquake in Haiti. Press club of Strasbourg in France, exhibited some cartoons of Kianoush since 18th November 2010. this exhibition will be continued till 15th December 2010. "the House of Journalists" of France is the co-organizer of this exhibition

JE L'ADMIRE: I admire him

les problèmes de caravanes des Roms the problems of Roma caravans اخراج کولی های رومانیایی تبار از فرانسه و سکوت همه سازمان ها و رسانه های حقوق بشری فرانسه پس از این اقدام سارکوزی

Sarkozy a trouvé la solution définitive pour le problème de la retraite! Sarkozy found the final solution for retirement problem!

ma nouvelle caricature sur la liberté d'expression My new cartoon in "Khodnevis" online journal http://www.khodnevis.org/

Cartooning for Peace's Exhibition, Saint-Just-le-Martel, France, October 2010

The relationship between Eindhoven and Bayeux was established in September 1945, the two cities having in common the fact that they were their nation's first cities to be liberated from German occupation. Each year, a delegation from Eindhoven is present in Bayeux for the city's commemorative festivities. Besides members of the Stichting 18 September and the city's Mayor , the delegation is comprised of representatives from Eindhoven's City Council, students from several high school and the bicyclists who transport the torch to Eindhoven. Since 1989, a number of volunteers from Eindhoven's "Lichtjesroute" ("Light Parade") are part of the delegation as well. The volunteer's mission is to "illuminate" Bayeux's liberation with "light from Eindhoven". In September 2008, Eindhoven and Bayeux officially became "sister cities".

Ensemble contre la peine de mort (ECPM), ONG française oeuvrant pour l’abolition universelle de la peine de mort, propose d’organiser au sein des collèges et deslycées français, des rencontres avec les élèves, afin de leur apporter des informations sur la réalité de la peine de mort dans le monde, et de leur faire rencontrer des témoins de son application. Ces interventions, consistant en l’organisation d’un débat entre les élèves, les membres de l’association ECPM, et des témoins clés de la peine de mort (anciens condamnés, avocats, familles de victimes), sont l’occasion de sensibiliser les jeunes à une problématique toujours d’actualité, puisque 58 pays disposent encore de cette sanction dans leur arsenal juridique, et que l’opinion publique française n’est pas encore pleinement convaincue de l’intérêt d’abolir universellement la peine capitale. En outre, elles permettent de cerner les enjeux et le fonctionnement d’un système pénal pacifié tel qu’il e...

By Jalal Alavi Iran's Green Movement is the subject of much controversy these days. While some are of the opinion that it is no more than a civil rights movement in pursuit of specific concessions from those in power, there are those to whom the movement is no less than a revolutionary phenomenon destined to topple the Islamic Republic [1] Green Growth - by Kianoosh-Ramezani Whatever the truth behind such speculations, one thing is for certain: Iran's Green Movement is the concrete embodiment of an emerging democratic consciousness on the part of the majority of Iranians, and, as such, cannot be reduced to its component parts, including its leaders. In other words, the movement will continue to go forward in spite of the Islamic Republic's frenzied crackdown on individuals and organizations associated with it, so long as the prospect of a democratic Iran continues to inspire Iranians from all walks of life [2]. What is more, contrary to the regime's baseless a...