Kianoush's arts and activities

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Göteborg International Film Festival is the biggest film festival in Scandinavia as well as one of the biggest audience festivals in the world. We will participate in this great event officially by the our first collective cartoon expo "Sketch Freedom" and I will be present during the festival as the curator of our project

Poster design by Kianoush Ramezani | Cartoon by Damien Glez Founded by Kianoush Ramezani, Iranian exiled cartoonist in France, Sketch Freedom is a World movement to support and popularize freedom of expression and exiled cartoonists. Sketch Freedom Cartoon Expo hosted by 37th Göteborg International Film Festival , presented at the Regional State Archives in Gothenburg and curated by Kianoush shows a collective artworks made by cartoonists of New Yorker , Courrier International and other world main journals to dedicate the value of freedom of expression. Sketch Freedom är en internationell rörelse som uppmärksammar och stödjer satirtecknare i exil och deras kamp för yttrandefrihet. 37th Göteborg International Film Festival presenterar stolt Sketch Freedom Cartoon Expo som är en samutställning kurerad av rörelsens grundare Kianoush Ramezani, iransk satirtecknare i exil, verksam i Paris. Utställningen, som du kan ta del av i Landsarkivets lokaler, visar verk som manifesterar vä...

Reporters Without Borders is appalled by the abduction and murder of two French journalists, Ghislaine Dupont and Claude Verlon, today in the northern city of Kidal. They worked for Radio France Internationale. “The summary execution of these two RFI journalists is vile and unspeakable,” Reporters Without Borders secretary-general Christophe Deloire said. “We feel both outrage and disgust that journalists who had the courage to cover an area such as the Kidal region were shot in cold blood after interviewing someone. “We grieve for them, their families and their RFI colleagues, we are concerned for the residents of the Ifoghas massif, whose plight deserves to be covered, and we condemn this double murder, which sadly highlights the lawlessness still prevailing in northern Mali. This act was not only criminal but also terrorist in nature, one designed to deter outside media coverage.” Dupont and Verlon were kidnapped and shot after conducting an interview in Kidal. Their bodies were ...

http://www.nobelprize.org/

http://www.lemonde.fr/proche-orient/article/2013/09/20/des-tunisiennes-partiraient-en-syrie-pour-le-djihad-du-sexe_3481428_3218.html

Sponsored by League of Human Rights and Cinema Alhambra  from 19th September 2013 Photos by Iiris-Lilja Kuosmanen

for Drummer Lee Rigby who was Killed In London Attack

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/middleeast/iran/10034051/Irans-Ayatollah-Khamenei-embroiled-in-German-car-dealer-row.html

Portrait of Khamenei, the contemporary "Zahhak" (read link below to know who is Zahhak in Persian Mythology http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zahhak

Photos by Iiris-lilja Kuosmanen