Hey Paris! damn crazy city! I love you!

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!

1. 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...
2. 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!
   
3. when I am walking in your streets, the only name that I can remember is "Haussmann". and a crazy story of "destroying and rebuilding"...
4. watching normally, there are a lot of cafe beside the streets, a lot of people sitting and seems to be calm and relaxed. millions of cigarettes and spoken words while smoking. thousands dates and break ups!
5. watching the ground, it is unbelievable! you are a great collection of any kind of shits, pissing and trashes! dogs are busy to create some artworks with their asses and dicks! you can even motivate animals to create!
6. now, watching just under the streets. metro stations. I love your metro stations! they are like the vessels that connect all of your body to each other. the first thing that I see is the "condom machine"! what a hot city you are!
7. inside the metro, I saw the people. they are very different from above! pale and stressed faces, boring eyes and loneliness! what a "paradox"

I love you because you have "moody","Paradox","Hot","Motivation","destroying and rebuilding" behavior. you are really crazy! like me! :)

Happy New Year! - Bonne année!

Today's Plantu cartoon in Le Monde: Jafar Panahi

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 published daily since many years ago at the first page of this newspaper.

Presentation for abolition in Belfort (photo report)

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.

ma classe et mon cours idéale

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 professors, Madame Miginiac and Madame Aya Remon and all of friends from all over the World - Sweden, Hungary, USA, Poland, Bulgaria, Lithuania, Japan, and England - and "Line"

Kianoush Ramezani
human rights activist and cartoonist
5th December 2010, Paris
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il ya beaucoup de nuits que j'ai passé jusqu'au matin. mais la nuit dernière a été un de mes une spéciale et étrange, car je l'ai passé parmi mes camarades de classe unique et agréable. il était très difficile pour moi de sourire, boire, danser et parler avec eux en pensant que c'est peut-être la dernière fois ...
Bien que j'ai commencé ce cours pour apprendre la langue française, mais maintenant, j'ai appris beaucoup des leçons. La leçon la plus importante pour moi est le fait même que "Saadi" le grand poète iranien a dit à plus de 700 ans: " Les enfants de l'humanité sont chacun des membres d'autres que les actions d'origine dans leur créateur" c'est exactement la même phrase qui se trouve sur Organisation des Nations Unies. J'ai appris une fois de plus que la vie est très courte et je dois dire au revoir.Je suis sûr que le temps que j'ai passé avec mon professeur et ses amis, va m'apporter beaucoup d'inspirations pour créer un grand nombre de caricatures impressionnante, des présentations et des activités.remerciements spéciaux à mes professeurs, Mme Miginiac et Mme Aya Remon et tous les amis de partout dans le monde - la Suède, la Hongrie, Etats-Unis, la Pologne, la Bulgarie, la Lituanie, le Japon et l'Angleterre - et "Line"

Kianoush Ramezani
militant des droits de l'homme et caricaturiste
5 décembre 2010, Paris

Kianoush's cartoons in the press club of Strasbourg - France

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

that's why Ahmadinejad is popular somewhere

JE L'ADMIRE: I admire him